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Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy
 
Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

Asbestos Exposure May Shorten Firefighters’ Life Expectancy

The Firefighting Authority is putting into place new safety measures for handling asbestos fires, which may pose firefighters their greatest health risk. Yesterday’s fire in Keshet gave firefighters their first opportunity to try out new regulations. The firefighters used protective equipment and washed themselves afterward to minimize their exposure to asbestos. Firefighters around the world [...]

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Quebec liberal party leader admonishes asbestos industry

02 September 2010

Quebec has been highly criticized in the past several years because of its continuing stake in the asbestos industry. Now, new plans to expand the province’s asbestos mining operations have caused further outrage among local and international activists, as well as from prestigious doctors and medical communities. Asbestos causes a variety of serious diseases including [...]

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Wife of Exxon Mobile employee awarded secondary exposure damages

25 August 2010

An appellate court recently ruled that Bonnie Anderson, a Berkeley Heights, New Jersey woman, was entitled to $7 million in damages from Exxon Mobile. The ruling is particularly important to ongoing asbestos litigation because of the way that Anderson contracted the disease. Anderson, whose husband’s employment with Exxon Mobile involved handling asbestos laden insulation, was [...]

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Mesothelioma diagnosis process could benefit from recent discovery

18 August 2010

A specific protein family known as serum mesothelin could help to effect earlier diagnoses for mesothelioma patients, says a new study produced by Australian cancer researchers. The proteins, demonstrates the study, are present in higher concentrations than normal in many mesothelioma patients. While the conclusions thus far don’t point to any immediately usable screening standard, [...]

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New laws may better protect the public from industrial toxins

11 August 2010

The House of Energy and Commerce Subcommittee held a hearing recently to consider the Toxic Chemicals Safety Act, H.R. 5820, which would further shape the Toxic Substances Control Act, a federal measure enacted in 1976. If passed, the new law will require manufacturers to prove that their products are safe to use in the way [...]

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TSF Study finds asbestos in Sierra Nevada Foothills

04 August 2010

A new study conducted by The Sierra Fund (TSF) and called The Gold Country Recreational Trails and Abandoned Mines Assessment has found that outdoor enthusiasts bear California’s Sierra Nevada Foothills may be in danger of exposure to dangerous minerals and chemicals. The study shows that the aftermath of the Gold Rush era continues to haunt [...]

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EPA plans general asbestos ban

29 July 2010

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), according the director of its Department of Environmental Sanitation and Toxic Substance Management, Lin Chien-hui, is planning on phasing asbestos out of use throughout the United States by 2020. Currently the United States remains as one of the few developed nations that has yet to ban chrysotile asbestos, a mineral [...]

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