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Past and current asbestos exposure and future mesothelioma risks in Britain: The Inhaled Particles Study (TIPS)

March 12, 2018 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Background:  Occupational and environmental airborne asbestos concentrations are too low and variable for lifetime exposures to be estimated reliably, and building workers and occupants may suffer higher exposure when asbestos in older buildings is disturbed or removed. Mesothelioma risks from current asbestos exposures are therefore not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Medicine Tagged With: asbestos exposure, asbestos fibers, asbestos-cancer, chrysotile asbestos, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma

Diffuse peritoneal mesothelioma: A case series of 62 patients including paraoccupational exposures to chrysotile asbestos

November 27, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Background  Diffuse peritoneal malignant mesothelioma (DPM) is caused by exposure to asbestos. The medical literature has linked DPM primarily to high levels of asbestos exposure, in particular amosite. Controversy persists as to whether chrysotile is capable of causing DPM, especially when exposures are paraoccupational. Methods  Sixty-two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: amosite, asbestos, asbestos exposure, chrysotile, chrysotile asbestos, Diffuse peritoneal malignant mesothelioma (DPM), household exposures, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma, paraoccupational exposures, secondhand asbestos exposure, secondhand exposure

Hand-spinning chrysotile exposure and risk of malignant mesothelioma: A case-control study in Southeastern China

October 11, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

While chrysotile has been commonly used by Chinese textile industry for many years, investigations on the association of chrysotile exposure with risk of mesothelioma in China are scarce. We conducted a case-control study in a county located at Southeastern China, including 46 cases and 230 individually matched controls. A semi-quantitative method … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos exposure, asbestos-cancer, chrysotile asbestos, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma

Data on mesothelioma mortality: a powerful tool for preventing asbestos-related disease

October 9, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Asbestos is a disaster. It has been responsible for over 200?000 deaths in the USA, for 400,000 deaths in Europe and continues today to cause an estimated 180,000 deaths each year worldwide. Asbestos is a known cause of cancer, and the International Agency for Research on Cancer considers all forms of asbestos—including chrysotile, the form in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos disease, asbestos exposure, asbestos-cancer, asbestos-related disease, chrysotile asbestos, lung cancer, lung disease, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma

Asbestos, spying and the Canadian connection

May 10, 2017 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

This week in Geneva, delegates to a conference of the parties to the Rotterdam Convention are again discussing whether chrysotile asbestos should be put on the list of hazardous substances. One hot topic is sure to be Canada, which until 2012 was a major exporter of chrysotile — the most common form of asbestos — and opposed its inclusion on the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facts Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos fibers, asbestos mine, asbestos products, chrysotile asbestos

Asbestos Defendant Georgia Pacific: The Potential Legal “Crime-Fraud” Situation Involving Professor Ken Donaldson And GP In-house Litigation Counsel

September 24, 2013 By Tom Lamb 1 Comment

According to an investigative article, "Dust storm: 'Crime-fraud' allegations cloud conference", published by Hazards magazine, an Edinburgh University scientist, Professor Ken Donaldson, is at the center of a controversy that has potential "crime-fraud" ramifications for Georgia Pacific (GP) as regards its asbestos litigation. In the July - … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Law, Lawsuits Tagged With: asbestos, asbestos fibers, asbestos lawsuit, asbestos-cancer, chrysotile asbestos, Georgia Pacific, Law, legal, malignant mesothelioma, mesothelioma, mesothelioma lawsuit

Health organisations call on government to halt chrysotile asbestos exports to developing nations

July 1, 2010 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

Quoted from http://www.montrealgazette.com/business/Health+organisations+call+govt+halt+asbestos+exports/3220879/story.html Health organisations call on government to halt chrysotile asbestos exports to developing nations   By Robert Gibbens, The Gazette June 30, 2010     MONTREAL - Three national health organizations Wednesday added their … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Facts Tagged With: asbestos, Black-Lake, canada, chrysotile asbestos, Quebec

California Jury Awards Asbestos Worker $3.4 Million

August 10, 2009 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

It only took a day for a San Francisco jury to find a Canadian company liable for exposing a deceased former Johns-Manville Transite plant worker to asbestos. Richard Worthley Sr., worked in the plant in Waukegan, Ill. from May 1968 to 1984, when it closed. He was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2004. The defendant in the case, Advocate Mines … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Claims, Law, Lawsuits Tagged With: asbestos case, california jury, chrysotile asbestos, mesothelioma

Canadian Medical Association Denounces Government for Promoting Asbestos

November 13, 2008 By Tom Lamb Leave a Comment

The 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure Tagged With: asbestos, canada, chrysotile asbestos, exports

Defending the Indefensible: Book Review

August 21, 2008 By Tom Lamb 1 Comment

A book, due out in late August 2008 by Jock McCulloch and Geoffrey Tweedale, Defending the Indefensible:  The Global Asbestos Industry and Its Fight for Survival discusses the problems of asbestos in the environment, compensating victims, and the continued use of asbestos in the developing world.  The book is based on documentary material gained … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Exposure, Facts Tagged With: chrysotile asbestos, turner & newall

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