Human Exposure: The Key to Better Risk Assessment. From: Environmental Health Perspectives | Date: December 1, 2000| Author: Wakefield, Julie | COPYRIGHT 2000 National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

For decades, the citizens of Libby, Montana, knew something was awry in their rural community. Every year, more and more residents were developing respiratory problems such as emphysema and mesothelioma. The problems often became fatal. In fact, by fall 2000, there were more than 190 such deaths by some estimates. Residents had long suspected a vermiculite mine, the town's chief employer for nearly 70 years, as the source of the maladies. Yet, no one knew for sure.

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