And the ACT CFMEU says asbestos -including the ''fairy floss'' amosite insulation - was a daily concern for workers in the ACT going into houses and commercial buildings.

Abstract Previous studies have shown that long thin asbestos fibres are more pathogenic in in vivo and more active in in vitro assays than short fibre samples. In the present study a long fibre ...

Results Exposure to long and short chrysotile only was associated with increased mesothelioma risk compared with the unexposed (OR=3.8 (95% CI 1.3 to 11.2)). The complex mixture of extra-long amosite, ...

Objectives—To examine the causes of death among 1130 former workers of a plant in Tyler, Texas dedicated to the manufacture of asbestos pipe insulation materials. This cohort is important and unusual ...

1876: Large deposits of asbestos are discovered near what is now Thetford Mines, Que. Although smaller deposits were mined off and on in British Columbia, Yukon, Ontario and Newfoundland, the Quebec ...

BACKGROUND A factory fire in Tranmere, Merseyside, England, deposited asbestos containing fallout in an urban area. There was considerable community anxiety for months after the incident. Therefore an ...