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A Critique of Helsinki Criteria for Using Lung Fiber Levels to Determine Causation in Mesothelioma Cases

Annals of Global Health
Volume 87 (2021): Issue 1
By: Triet Tran,  David Egilman,  Mark Rigler and  Theresa Emory  
Open Access
|Jul 2021

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