Showing posts with label Chrysotile. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chrysotile. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 16, 2014

Asbestos: The Silent Epidemic Continues

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The asbestos epidemic continues and there remains no safe use for the asbestos, as exposure remains the cause of asbestosis, lung cancer a...
Sunday, July 6, 2014

British employer jailed for illegal supply of asbestos sheeting after worker fell to his death

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Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Today's post is shared from hse.gov.uk A 64-year-old Shrops...
Friday, November 22, 2013

“Scientists Who Help Asbestos Industry Sell Asbestos” by Kathleen Ruff

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Today's post was shared by Ban Asbestos Network and comes from www.gban.net Kathleen Ruff Scientists who help asbestos ind...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Facing lawsuits over deadly asbestos, paper giant launched secretive research program

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By 2007, the Georgia-Pacific research program, approved by Childs, was in full swing. The first step was to try to re-create bot...
Saturday, October 12, 2013

Scientific improprieties in the asbestos industry funded research of McGill professor

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Asbestos research , and its validity, is a much debated quesstion. Today's post is shared from Kathleen Ruff, RightOnCanada.ca Here...
Thursday, January 26, 2012

Carolina Asbestos Textile Industry Risk High Mortality

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Image via Wikipedia Studies of workers in two US cohorts of asbestos textile workers exposed to chrysotile (North Carolina (NC) and South C...
Friday, June 24, 2011

The Ugly Canadians

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Today, Canada blocked the United Nations from banning asbestos . Reuters reported, "Chrysotile asbestos will not be listed as a hazardo...

Canada Called A Pariah State

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Canada's activities at the UN Rotterdam Convention to prevent the listing of chrysotile asbestos as a carcinogen has been internation...