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Wednesday, June 30th, 2010
Canadian national health organizations are now joining the international call for the Canadian government to ban the use and export of asbestos. Today, the Canadian Public Health Association (CPHA), the Canadian Medical Association (CMA) and the National Specialty Society for Community Medicine (NSSCM) are calling on the federal and provincial governments to stop mining asbestos and to ban its export.
Canada continues to provide financial support for the asbestos industry and actively promotes Canadian exports to the remaining markets for asbestos – developing countries that lack regulations, work place safety regulations and public awareness to protect asbestos workers and their families.
More than 40 countries, including all member states of the European Union, have banned the use of all forms of asbestos. Earlier this year, scientists from around the world issued an open letter imploring Canada to stop exporting this deadly mineral to other parts of the world.
“It’s inconceivable that we would restrict the use of asbestos in our own country but continue to export this hazardous product around the world,” says Dr. Anne Doig, President of the Canadian Medical Association.
For more information see Canadian News Wire article. Want to do more to stop the export of asbestos from Canada? See International Ban Asbestos Secretariat
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Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
Reports of asbestos disease began appearing on a regular basis in the medical literature as early as the 1930s. Thousands of Americans continue to be diagnosed each year with asbestos cancers such as mesothelioma and lung cancer. Yet, researchers still don’t know the exact steps the body takes to initiate the development of asbestos-related cancers.
Findings related to this issue appear in a study published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA. Abstract of the study available here.
This study found that when asbestos kills human cells, it does so by inducing a process called “programmed cell necrosis” that leads to the release of a molecule called high-mobility group box 1 protein (HMGB1). HMGB1 starts an inflammatory reaction that causes the release of mutagens and factors the promote tumor growth.
The researchers propose that it may be possible to decrease cancer incidence or decrease tumor growth rate by interfering with the inflammatory reaction process caused by HMGB1. Additional research and experimental testing will be required to test the study’s hypothesis.
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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
Congoleum Ad - 1930s
Flooring giant, Congoleum Corp.’s bankruptcy reorganization plan was approved Tuesday by a U.S. District bankruptcy court.
Congoleum sought Chapter 11 protection Dec. 31, 2003 as a result of its own asbestos-laden floor tiles which it sold for decades. As a result, thousands of asbestos victim claims were pending against the floor tile manufacturer at the time of the filing. Inhalation of asbestos fibers, even from the cutting, scraping or sanding of asbestos containing floor tiles, can result in malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung as well as lung cancer.
Under the plan, the company will give 50.1% of the stock in the reorganized Congoleum to a trust to pay present and future asbestos victims. The trust will also get approximately $235 million from court-approved asbestos insurance settlement agreements as well as additional asbestos insurance coverage funds.
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Monday, May 17th, 2010
The President’s Cancer Panel, a panel appointed during the George W. Bush presidency, issued its new report, Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk, earlier this month. One of the main points of discussion was the panel’s recommendation for adjustments to the EPA’s ability to officially identify and designate toxic substances. A myriad of 80,000 chemicals are on the market in the United States. However, because of regulatory complexity and other legal hurdles few of these chemicals have been formally evaluated/regulated by the EPA under the Toxic Control Substance Act .
One substance that has been widely evaluated and even banned by the EPA (the ban only to be undone by a subsequent federal court opinion) is asbestos. The President’s Cancer Panel report identifies asbestos as one of the industrial and manufacturing contaminants which still poses a threat to health in 2010. Inhalation of asbestos fibers is the cause of mesothelioma. The President’s Panel report also notes that the World Health Organization, the World Bank Group, international labor organizations and countries have banned asbestos, “but its use continues in many nations, including the United States.”
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
The President’s Cancer Panel report release this week (report in PDF format available to download at end of post) finds a dire need to increase the review and regulation of chemicals and toxic substances in order to continue the reduction of cancer rates in the American population. The expert panel urged the President “to use the power of your office to remove carcinogens and other toxins from our food, water, and air that needlessly increase health care costs, cripple our nations productivity and devastate Americans lives.”
The panel criticized the current US system for reviewing and classifying chemicals as toxic substances. Of the more than 80,000 chemicals used in the United States, only 200 have been reviewed by the EPA in the past 30 years. The hurdles that exist for classifying a substance as a toxin under the Toxic Substance Control Act are daunting and prevent the protection of the public.
For example, in 1989 after years of study, the EPA issued a rule phasing out most uses of asbestos – a substance whose health effects had been exhaustively studied and demonstrated to cause lung cancer, mesothelioma and asbestosis in humans. Yet, a federal court overturned the rule because the EPA failed to clear the many hurdles imposed under the TSCA before existing chemical risks can be controlled. Due to these legal and procedural hurdles, the EPA in the past 30 years has only examined 200 chemicals out of the possible universe of 80,000 chemicals used in the United States.
The TSCA must be updated and strengthened. A greater emphasis needs to be placed on industry to conduct research and testing and to provide those results to the EPA. Further, the EPA needs to be allowed to rely on sound, existing science to classify and regulate toxins under the TSCA.
The panel report calls the existing regulatory system reactionary rather than precautionary which means that the government waits for proof of harm before taking action, instead of taking preventative steps when there is uncertainty about a chemical.
The panel report examines a number of environmental contaminants as a possible cause of cancer as well as continued tobacco use by Americans. Tobacco use alone is estimated to cause 30% of the cancers diagnosed annually in the United States.
For more details download the President’s Cancer Panel report Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk — What We Can Do Now (PDF file).
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Friday, May 7th, 2010
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has published 15 years of measurements of workplace exposures to toxic chemicals collected by inspectors and asked outside researchers to recommend possible uses for the data. The data set was released as part of the White House Open Government Initiative. The measurements were collected as part of OSHA compliance monitoring program. The data set includes exposure measurements for hazardous substances including asbestos, benzene, beryllium, cadmium, lead, nickel, and silica, the agency said. Only the raw data is currently posted. OSHA will soon add a search tool to the database to make it more accessible.
The data can be found at:
http://www.osha.gov/opengov/healthsamples.html
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Thursday, May 6th, 2010
Two Buffalo, New York contractors were arrested Wednesday, May 5th and accused of illegally dumping more than five tons of asbestos-contaminated debris in an abandoned city warehouse.
A Buffalo area asbestos abatement contractor, and a demolition contractor, are charged with two felony counts that carry a maximum penalty of seven years in prison.
“People who try to cut corners by illegally dumping harmful materials, like asbestos, endanger the public and hurt the environment,” New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said.
Inhalation of asbestos fibers, even in low doses, can cause a variety of cancers including malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung. Actions such as those allegedly taken by the two individuals in this criminal case endanger human health and violate scores of local, state and federal health regulations.
According to court papers, one of the men is charged with collecting thousands of pounds of asbestos-contaminated waste and storing it in containers at a warehouse. After being notified by the state Labor Department of an upcoming inspection, the man had the waste hauled to an abandoned building.
The asbestos reportedly remained hidden for more than a year, until it was discovered by the Labor Department’s asbestos regulators. The U. S. Environmental Protection Agency cleaned the site at a cost of $137,400.
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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010
The most recent Extreme Home Maker episode (episode 26, season 7) which aired April 11th involved the demolition and construction of a new home for Amanda and Derrick Suggs, a young South Carolina couple that lived in a home built by Derrick’s grandfather decades ago. The home was falling apart and came with a laundry list of needed repairs, including cracked asbestos siding that posed a health hazard to the Extreme Home Maker demolition team. In this episode some of the health hazards associated with residential asbestos products are discussed and footage is shown of the abatement crews removing and properly disposing of asbestos siding. See the Suggs episode at www.hulu.com/watch/141903/extreme-makeover-home-edition-the-suggs-family
Never perform asbestos abatement yourself. You should always hire an asbestos abatement professional to safely remove and properly dispose of asbestos containing materials.
Asbestos was an ingredient in thousands of residential construction products including exterior asbestos siding. Breathing airborne asbestos fibers can cause malignant mesothelioma and lung cancer decades after an individual is exposed to the asbestos product by cutting, grinding, or tearing the material.
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Texas Stadium, home to the Dallas Cowboys for 37 years, was imploded on Sunday, April 11th by the City of Irving to make way for new highway and light rail construction through the Dallas suburb. Like most buildings of its era, Texas Stadium was constructed with asbestos-containing materials. In fact, the presence of asbestos delayed the implosion date and required asbestos abatement teams to properly dispose of asbestos containing materials.
Built in 1971, Texas Stadium was a state-of-the-art facility that set the standard for future NFL stadiums. Unfortunately, the stadium was also built near the peak years that asbestos was used as an ingredient in thousands of construction products. Like other buildings of its time, asbestos was present throughout the stadium, including: glue to hold down carpets, mirrors and tile, as well as drywall materials such as joint compound and texture material on its block walls.
Asbestos fibers, when made airborne from the cutting, sanding or chipping apart of construction products, are a deadly carcinogen capable of causing malignant mesothelioma, a cancer of the lining of the lung as well as lung cancer and a series of other diseases.
Federal, state and local environmental standards required that asbestos had to be removed from the entire stadium before the implosion could take place. Abatement crews equipped with special respirators and special suits removed the asbestos within tented areas and purified the air. All asbestos-containing materials were then double-bagged and moved to a regulated landfill. Before the implosion, air samples were also taken to confirm that the air readings no longer indicated the presence of asbestos above background levels.
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Friday, April 9th, 2010
Manager of the Sex Pistols and punk rock icon, Malcolm McLaren died Thursday of malignant mesothelioma, a rare cancer of the lining of the lung caused by asbestos exposure. He was 64.
McLaren’s career in music wasn’t limited to managing the Pistols. He also had a solo career in which he blended genres. In the early 1980s, he had key songs in hip-hop, including “Buffalo Gals,” and brought different influences to the developing genre.
In managing and advising numerous musicians and bands, writing music for television ads and in the fashion world McLaren seemed to stay ahead of the twisting turns of the fashion and pop culture world. Sex Pistols front man John Lyndon is quoted in press reports today saying: “For me, Malc was always entertaining, and I hope you remember that. Above all else he was an entertainer and I will miss him, and so should you.”
McLaren died Thursday in a Swiss hospital after battling malignant mesothelioma.
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