UK Asbestos Removed From Schools But Not Government Buildings
Friday, November 21st, 2008Below is the content of an intriguing Op Ed from The Times online, a UK publication. The topic is, of course, asbestos. What is intriguing is the mention of varying levels of urgency in asbestos removal, depending on the type of building. Asbestos is in many old buildings, in the UK and […]
Ian Wright: Soccer Player and Anti-Asbestos Icon
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008What would Ian Wright be if he wasn’t a soccer champion? With 185 goals for Arsenal, Ian Wright’s score card makes for impressive reading. But Ian Wright used to be a plasterer and had he stayed in that profession, his game would have been very different.
Twenty tradesmen die every week after being exposed […]
Does Nanotechnology Pose a Threat Similar to Asbestos?
Monday, November 17th, 2008Today’s topic is nano stuff. Nanotechnology is the science of technology on a very small scale. For example, a nanometer is one billionth of a meter. As research and speculation progress with nanotechnology, the potential for scientific invention and danger is becoming a subject of conflict.
There appear to be divided camps on the subject of […]
What Happens to Canadian Asbestos In India?
Friday, November 14th, 2008Narayan Mehra is a small man with gray hair and good posture. He worked in the turbine department at a thermal power plant mixing asbestos from Canada and India with other chemicals, then putting it on pipes for insulation.
“It was a good job,” he says, it provided him with enough money to buy […]
Canadian Medical Association Denounces Government for Promoting Asbestos
Thursday, November 13th, 2008The Canadian Medical Association Journal denounced the federal government for its continued efforts to block international controls on asbestos at the UN-sponsored Rotterdam Convention in 2008.
A strongly worded editorial said the government “knows what it is doing is shameful and wrong” and compared Ottawa’s moral stature in continuing to promote the use […]
Vermont Health Officials Warn About Old Asbestos Mine
Tuesday, November 11th, 2008There is a story on Vermont Public Radio, about how the state is warning people to stay away from an abandoned asbestos mine in Eden and Lowell because of potential health problems from asbestos exposure.
The Health Department recently completed a study to measure the health risks. We needed a study to know an abandoned […]
UK Department Store Closes Window Display
Thursday, November 6th, 2008What does Selfridges, a London department store, closing its window display have to do with asbestos and who cares?
Well, think of Macy’s. Or Saks. In the US, both have very prominent display windows and it would be noticed if they were closed indefinitely. Selfridges has closed the window display in its flagship […]
Watch Out For the Asbestos Penguin!
Wednesday, November 5th, 2008So there is apparently this giant penguin made of asbestos in Australia and people are worried enough to subject said penguin to forensic analysis.
Central Coast Mayor Mike Downie said the council and Workplace Standards Tasmania would assess Mr. Penguin for asbestos.
This follows claims by the Australian Workers Union, a historian and Asbestos Disease Tasmania […]
ATSDR Examines Asbestos Exposure to Montana Vermiculite in 28 States
Friday, October 31st, 2008The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), in conjunction with state agencies in 28 states, is evaluating pathways of asbestos exposure in those states which received vermiculite asbestos from the mine in Libby, Montana. Read the ATSDR report.
Visit ATSDR for more details about the report and affected states.
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Asbestos Not Added to UN Watch List
Friday, October 31st, 2008There are 39 substances on the Rotterdam Convention’s international trade watch list, under which an exporting nation must ensure no substance on the list leaves its territory without the consent of the recipient country. The watch list is formally known as the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International […]
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