Today, the Environmental Health Perspectives, a peer-review journal published by a division of the National Institute of Health, released the article “A Worn-Out Welcome: Renewed Call for a Global Ban on Asbestos” detailing the effects of asbestos worldwide and reiterating the deadly chrysotile cycle.
The Canadian Medical Association, the Canadian Public Health Association and the National Specialty Society for Community Medicine issued a press release demanding that provincial and federal governments stop funding the asbestos industry and promoting Canadian asbestos abroad. Canada is the world’s fifth largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos and there are two mines in the province of Quebec that accounts for all of the Canadian chrysotile production.
We are moving closer to a global asbestos ban and look to the United States and Canada to take a leadership role to end the deadly asbestos legacy.
In unity,
Linda Reinstein