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The Defence of Chrysotile, 1912-2007
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The commercial exploitation of asbestos may be dated from the late 1870s, when Canada was the major world source. Reports of severe and fatal respiratory disease in workers in asbestos factories appeared in Britain (1898, 1906), and in France (1906) and Italy (1908). In 1912 the Canadian Department of Labour denied that the health of Quebec's millers and miners was affected. A series of denials appeared for over 40 years, until in 1955 a Thetford Mines medical officer reported finding that be...
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Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-offs and the Body at Risk
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; Asbestos and Fire: Technological Trade-offs and the Body at Risk. By Rachel Maines. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2005. xiv + 254 pp. Illustrations, photographs, tables, appendix, notes, index. Cloth, $34-95- IBSN: 0-8135-3575-1. Nearly 1.5 billion pounds of asbestos were used in
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Lawyer: Asbestos in snacks
Chicago Sun-Times
; Evidence of asbestos was found in two Hostess snacks that were part of a nationwide recall last month, an attorney who has filed a lawsuit against the maker of the snacks said Friday. Chicago attorney Kenneth Moll said tests in labs in Chicago and Atlanta "affirmatively found asbestos" in the two
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CONGRESS MUST ELIMINATE ASBESTOS.(Editorial)
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)
; Asbestos is still legal in the United States. Because it causes cancer, the fibrous mineral has been banned by 20 countries and will be prohibited in the European Union by 2005. So far, at least 200 people who lived in Libby, Mont., have died because they were exposed to it. Still, products
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The industrialized history of asbestos.
Townsend Letter
; Introduction Asbestos is a dangerous mineral, mined for its extensive use in commercial products. It has been linked to asbestosis (asbestos-derived lung disease), lung cancer, and mesothelioma, a rare and deadly cancer of the mesothelium. Despite previous efforts to ban asbestos use, it continues
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Finding asbestos in home no longer rings major alarm
Chicago Sun-Times
; Finding asbestos in your home no longer means being invaded by men in space suits. Asbestos is on most of the federal government's lists of hazardous materials, and has been banned from use in most applications. Until recently, the hint of asbestos in a building caused it to be sealed in plastic
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Asbestos as a Work Hazard: Determining what was known and when
Professional Safety
; AS ASBESTOS LITIGATION begins to involve industrial and institutional premises owners, an increasing number of SH&E professionals are being asked why their employers were not more sensitive to the hazards of asbestos in the workplace. Part of the answer is that outside of a few select
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Now they tell us: Many of us knew back then what catastrophe now causes the EPA to fess up about asbestos. (Editorial Opinion).
Plumbing & Mechanical
; ... the combined forces of junk science, bureaucratic inertia and news media blather. Asbestos became the bogeyman of the hour -- make ... admission was low-keyed and not given the attention it deserves by a news media now thoroughly engaged in exaggerating the threat of anthrax ...
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Asbestos // Living with the legacy of asbestos
Chicago Sun-Times
; Two local asbestos scares in less than a week have put the spotlight on the dangers of the fireproof building material. The history The ancient Greeks first discovered that asbestos was fireproof. Asbestos cloth was used by the Egyptians to prepare bodies for burial, and the Romans collected the
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ASBESTOS A HAZARD FOR PROPERTY OWNERS
The Journal Record
; Asbestos, once was considered a miracle mineral that could save lives by reducing the prospects of fire, has become a major hazard problem for real estate owners. The removal of asbestos, which has the potential of causing lung cancer, is one of the most expensive potential problems facing real
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Dousing the asbestos alarm
Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
; ... insulated with crumbly and damaged asbestos fibers would be far less risky than driving a car to work in the same building. Our news media are notoriously poor at putting such risk in perspective. They simplistically equate asbestos with cancer, and then report ...
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