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© 2005 British Occupational Hygiene Society Published by Oxford University Press;
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I fully accept from the literature that analysis of the lungs of asbestotics can reveal many millions of asbestos fibres per gram of dry tissue (mf gdt–1). Whether the plaintiff in this case actually had asbestosis is the field of the medical experts: my interest was purely to determine if the lung residue data reported by the laboratory could have arisen from an exposure of 
40 fibres ml–1 years–1.
The technical content of the laboratory's lung residue report consisted of a total of 8
lines, 1 lines of which described the tests carried out and the balance was effectively quoted in Howie
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