TDI-Brooks International awarded contract by the Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute for Sieving and Storage of Carpet Dust Samples

The Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) conducted a case-controlled study of breast cancer in Poland [contracts N01-CP-91013, N02-CP-11003.] As part of this study, used vacuum cleaner bags were collected from 1,611 study participants. TDI-BI is responsible for receiving the vacuum-cleaner bags and sieving the entire contents through a 140-150 um stainless steel sieve to separate the dust into fine and coarse fractions. All of the collected fine dust is being stored. > > The contract number is 263-MQ-408368 and is effective March 2004. The contract amount is $42,000.