Archive for September, 2010
Asbestos Detection – A First Visual Inspection Guide
Property owners or potential buyers of a property that was built or was renovated at any time before the 1970s or 1980s can be fairly certain there is a strong likelihood that asbestos material could have been used and is still present. There are some basic tips for spotting the deadly material.
Mesothelioma Versus Asbestosis
The most well known twin deadly diseases, caused solely as a result of exposure to asbestos, can be often thought of as being the same condition. The two diseases are different and the differences, not always apparent because of similar symptoms, needs to be understood when undertaking a medical diagnoses, which will form an important part of any asbestos compensation or mesothelioma claim.
Asbestos Substitute Health Hazards!
Despite the UK asbestos industry maintaining a voluntary ban on the import of the highly lethal blue (crocidolite) asbestos from 1970 and a similar ban on the equally dangerous brown (amosite) asbestos from 1980, the import of asbestos products continued until the UK government finally imposed a legal ban on both, and all asbestos-containing products only as recently as 1986.
Asbestos Time Bomb Ticking In India
According to a recently published report, between 2000 and 2007, asbestos usage in India, who are one of the world’s largest importers of asbestos, doubled to about 300,000 metric tonnes. Reduction of asbestos import tariffs from 78 per cent to just 15 per cent has increased their asbestos-cement industry by around 10 per cent per year. 100,000 workers are now at risk of developing the deadly cancers of asbestosis and mesothelioma.