Russia protests against asbestos ban
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Russia, the world’s leading producer of asbestos, protested as an international forum in Moscow urged a global ban on the use of the material because of health risks.
“It’s just a PR campaign when they say that asbestos can kill,” said Viktor Ivanov, head of the Chrysotile Association, an industry group based in the Russian town of Asbestos in the Ural mountains region.
Yevgeny Kovalevsky, a forum delegate from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, said: “For the general population, there aren’t significant risks… I haven’t seen a single scientific study that shows the need for a ban.”
Meanwhile, international public health experts at the first World Social Security Forum in the Russian capital urged a global ban, saying that up to 100,000 people die every year of asbestos-related diseases.
This issue is a commentary by Russian Chrysotile Association to the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work and the International Safety and Health Exhibition (KISS-2008) held in Seoul, South Korea, on June 29 – July 02, 2008.
The Russian chrysotile industry continues the information campaign “A Big Lie of “Ban Asbestos”, which goal is to inform the public about true reasons of the anti-asbestos campaign, about the falsity of objectives of its promoters.
The information campaign is usually in the form of answers to your questions, but this issue is a commentary to the XVIII World Congress on Safety and Health at Work and the International Safety and Health Exhibition (KISS-2008) held in Seoul, South Korea, on June 29 – July 02, 2008.
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September 26th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
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September 26th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
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September 27th, 2009 at 1:23 am
Anything that is in the public that causes cancer should be taken care of.
And people who smoke have the choice. People who are in buildings and are not aware that they are containing asbestos do not really have the choice to stay away from it.
September 27th, 2009 at 3:18 am
When you say "altsimas"-do you mean alzhiemer's disease?I think you do. These are questions that the medical profession are asked all the time by relatives and patients…It is almost impossible to be able to tell you,with any certainty, how much longer your grandfather will live. Its just so hard-even for the most experienced nurse or doctor. A good indication of how much longer he will live would be when the doctor's take him off his meds-as a nurse that is always a good indicator. Of course if we could assess him, we might have a better idea. Is he in hospital full time? Are they telling you that he is palliative? Alzhiemer's does not always indicate that he will pass soon-he may live for years with just the alzhiemers alone, but combine that with asbestosis/cancer and it does not indicate a good outcome. I'm very sorry but the best information I can give you would be to ask his doctor privately to explain exactly your grandfather's condition to you.If you don't understand the explanation, tell the doctor that you don't understand.
September 27th, 2009 at 7:06 am
Mesothelioma is the cancer caused by asbestos.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesothelioma
September 27th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Shortness of breath is the main first symptom. Fatigue, weight loss, and a dry cough are also symptoms. My mom died from mesothelioma in 2006.
September 27th, 2009 at 5:38 pm
The carcinogenic nature of asbestos (chrysotile) has been related to the shape of the particles more than their composition. In other words, the substance itself is not carcinogenic – the shape is!
Chrysotile produces very thin fibers that can be many times longer than they are wide. When these become embedded in the lungs, larger particles can be coughed out but smaller particles need to be carried out by a type of white blood cell called a macrophage. Unfortunately, small asbestos fibers tend to be so long relative to their width that they tend to be actually longer than the macrophages. When the macrophages try to engulf them, the cells puncture and the macrophages die before they can do their job.
The EPA has targeted asbestos fibers over 8 micrometers in length as being the bad actors in causing mesothelioma (asbestos-related cancer), and claims that particles shorter than about 4 micrometers are not harmful (although this point is still being argued). Theoretically, the macrophages can successfully engulf shorter particles and get rid of them.
So why the cancer? There have been various theories about the mechanism. One theory is that the constant release of biochemical "distress signals" given off by the dying macrophages are the actual cause of the cancer. Another theory is that the asbestos particles have active surface sites for the generation of free radicals from oxygen, and that the free radicals are capable of reacting with and damaging the surrounding cells.
It's an interesting story. The link below has everything that you need (it is basically a list of resource papers and articles) although you will have to do some work to sift through the material.
The summary I wrote here is just from memory. When I was in university many moons ago this was one of the hot research topics in our department, so I got to see a lot of presentations on the subject although it was not an area in which I was personally working.
Good luck on the project
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September 29th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
A rather unknown quantity, which varies with lifestyle.
As much as one exposure to blue asbestos could cause illness.
Some builders have worked with ordinary asbestos all their lives and have no signs of illness yet. Others are already dead.