The Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule to prohibit ongoing uses of chrysotile asbestos, the first rule to be finalized under prior amendments in the Toxic Substances Control Act.

Ottaza, Ontario: The Canadian Mineralogist. ISBN 0 921 294 41 7 The famous mortality study led by Corbett McDonald has followed 11 000 Canadian chrysotile miners and millers until 80% were dead; only ...

Briscoe, H. V. A., Matthews, J. W., Holt, P. F., and Sanderson, P. M., Trans. Inst. Min. and Metall., 44, 291 (1937).

Background and Aims: Environmental exposures to chrysotile and tremolite from the soil cause pleural plaques and mesothelioma in northeast Corsica. Goats grazing in the contaminated areas inhale ...

Russian made Chrysotile asbestos is not harmful to humans, Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Sri Lanka and Maldives, Yury B. Materiy told Ceylon Today last afternoon….that it was in retaliation ...

TASS/. Thai manufacturers of building materials containing chrysotile asbestos are interested in expanding the import of raw materials from Russia, the head of Oranit, one of the largest companies ...

In a news release, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a final rule to ban the ongoing use of chrysotile asbestos. It added that asbestos exposure is known to cause mesothelioma ...