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Spreading Asbestos Across The World

July 21st, 2010 IBabel No comments

For those in the developed world, Asbestos may seem like a health hazard from the past: A cancer-causing fibre banned in the EU, Australia and elsewhere and limited to a small number of products in the United States. Scientists have long agreed that any exposure to Asbestos presents grave risks. Yet an investigation from the Center for Public Integrity and the BBC has found that Asbestos is still being used at shockingly high levels throughout the developing world.

See more here: http://www.publicintegrity.org/investigations/asbestos/

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