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Asbestos in the United States

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Asbestos, once extolled as the miracle mineral, has been a focus of national debate for many years due to delayed and uncertain responses by government and resistance by corporate entities to protect people from its known toxicity. Asbestos represents an important case study in public health; government, medical professionals, and industry managers first recognized the harmful properties of asbestos almost a century ago in America, and yet decades passed before regulatory agencies began acting on this information.

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  1. 1.

     See: Environmental Working Group website: http://www.ewg.org/

  2. 2.

     See: Occupational Safety and Health Administration website: http://www.osha.gov/

  3. 3.

     See: Consumer Product Safety Commission website: http://www.cpsc.gov/

  4. 4.

     See: Environmental Protection Agency website: http://www.epa.gov/

  5. 5.

     See: Library of Congress Thomas website: http://thomas.loc.gov/

  6. 6.

     See: Human Rights Watch website: http://www.hrw.org/

  7. 7.

     See: Yellowpages.com website: http://www.yellowpages.com/

  8. 8.

     For example, see: http://www.asbestosnetwork.com/tools/tl_support.htm

  9. 9.

     See: http://www.weitzlux.com/asbestos-lawyer_1054.html

  10. 10.

     See: http://www.motherjones.com/

  11. 11.

     See: CQ Moneyline website: http://www.sourcewatch.org/

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  3. Department of Public Health, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Hajime Sato

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Campbell, R., Webber, J.S., Sato, H. (2009). Asbestos in the United States. In: Sato, H. (eds) Management of Health Risks from Environment and Food. Alliance for Global Sustainability Bookseries, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3028-3_5

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