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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Greetings,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The University of Glasgow must have an Occupational/Environmental Health and Safety Department so I would contact them promptly before you disturb much art plaster on that shark model. There are well established ANSI & NIOSH standards for bulk sampling that they will be best equipped to both safely collect and analyze for you. That is their job…no need for you to try this one on your own.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Plaster models of a certain age (say,pre-1980) almost certainly have chrysotile asbestos because that form was such a perfectly moldable yet strong and unbreakable additive to plaster. I don’t know if/when Scotland banned the sale of asbestos products, but many places of employment (or taxidermy-model making shops) may have hung on to supplies even though banned for sale now.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Kathryn Makos, MPH CIH <o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>(Retired:Smithsonian Institution OSHEM)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Chair, AIHA Museum & Cultural Heritage Industry Working Group<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>