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... Inside Bay Area - Argus - Local News Advertise Health Enter search term(s) Shop local sales and specials from our newspapers News Local and Regional State, Nation, World Obituaries Sports Raiders A's 49ers Giants Prep Sports Sharks Cal Sports Columnists Business News Bay Area Living Food Health Travel Special Reports Multimedia Features Opinion TalkBack Resources Contact Info Subscriber Services ANG Jobs Advertise Teacher Support Contests Link To Article Print Article Email Article Article Last Updated: 09/29/2005 05:47:51 AM Factory closed, risks persist Feds warn defunct Newark plant's former workers of cancer threat By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER A former Newark insulation factory and 17 other defunct plants nationwide could trigger asbestos-related cancer and lung disease in former workers and possibly neighbors, federal health authorities said.

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Grace's factories processed shiny, golden vermiculite ore dug from a company mine in Libby, Mont., where more than 200 people are believed to have died prematurely from breathing a highly lethal form of asbestos.

Out of dozens of such factories in 22 states, only one fertilizer plant in Ohio handled more of the asbestos-contaminated vermiculite than the Newark plant, named California Zonolite and Diversified Insulation.

In almost 30 years, workers at the corrugated aluminum factory in Newark baked 300,000 tons of the ore and bagged it...

... Inside Bay Area - Daily Review Online - Local News Advertise Health Enter search term(s) Shop local sales and specials from our newspapers News Local News Sports Prep Sports Bay Area Living Business Opinion Letters to the Editor Obituaries Archives Education Link To Article Print Article Email Article Article Last Updated: 09/29/2005 05:57:54 AM Newark factory exposed workers to asbestos , FROM STAFF REPORTS A former Newark insulation factory and 17 other defunct plants nationwide could trigger asbestos-related cancer and lung disease in former workers and possibly neighbors, federal health authorities said.

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Grace's factories processed shiny, golden vermiculite ore dug from a company mine in Libby, Mont.

Out of dozens of such factories in 22 states, only one handled more of the asbestos-contaminated vermiculite than the Newark plant named California Zonolite and Diversified Insulation.

In almost 30 years, workers at the corrugated aluminum factory baked 300,000 tons of the ore.

Federal health authorities say those workers, particularly ones employed from 1966 to 1983, were exposed to dust clouds of tremolite-actinolite asbestos.

Symptoms of asbestos-related disease can take 25 or more years to emerge, so workers could begin showing respiratory problems this decade or later.

Former workers and close neighbors to the Newark plant can contact the Agency for Toxic Substances and...

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