16th Annual International Asbestos Awareness and Prevention Conference on September 17 - 18, 2021 || Live Streaming The Dr. Irving Selikoff Award 2023 | Dr. Henry Anderson 2022 | Dr. Andrea Wolf 2022 | Dr. Melissa McDiarmid 2021 | Dr. Jacqueline M. Moline 2019 | Dr. Eula Bingham 2019 | Dr. Daniela Degiovanni 2019 | [...]
Posted on July 31, 2021 This year marks the 32nd anniversary of the last time the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tried to ban asbestos, a known carcinogen, in the United States. Three decades later, the toxin still kills over 40,000 Americans annually, and hundreds of tons are still imported and used every year. For the [...]
Posted on July 21, 2021 A new study published by the Journal of Hazardous Materials Letters disproved the longstanding assumption that asbestos fibers are immobile in soils and cannot move in groundwater no matter the condition. The study instead proves that mobility of asbestos fibers below ground is instead enhanced by dissolved organic matter from [...]
Meeting mondiale sull’amianto: l’esempio di Casale «in rete» con Usa, Canada, Brasile e India by Silvana Mossano Posted on July 30, 2021 On Wednesday, July 21, 2021, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) hosted our 12th Zoom conversation, entitled “The Global Asbestos Fight for Human Rights and Justice.” We are grateful to all our panelists, [...]
Posted on July 30, 2021 On behalf of ADAO, I am honored to virtually share a poster during the XXII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work ”Prevention in the Connected Age || Global solutions to achieve safe and healthy work for all” on September 20 – 23, 2021. ADAO’s poster, “USA Asbestos Retrospective [...]