Statement in response to asbestos industry efforts to prevent a ban on asbestos in Pakistan: chrysotile asbestos use is not safe and must be banned

Arch Environ Occup Health. 2013;68(4):243-9. doi: 10.1080/19338244.2013.780807.

Authors

Guadalupe Aguilar Madrid, Micheline Beaudry, Warren Bell, Denise Bowes, James Brophy, Alex Burdorf, Chris Carlsten, Barry Castleman, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Marcelo Enrique Conti, Lilian Corra, Heleno R Corrêa Filho, Carl F Cranor, Elizabeth Cullen, Aquiel Dalvie, Robert C Dickson, Ana Digon, David Egilman, Cathey Eisner Falvo, Erica Fischer, Arthur L Frank, Erica Frank, David Gee, Fernanda Giannasi, Bernard D Goldstein, Morris Greenberg, Tee L Guidotti, W Andrew Harris, Marc Hindry, Andrew Houlson, Howard Hu, James Huff, Peter F Infante, Jayabalan Thambyappa, Cuauhtemoc A Juarez Perez, Mohamed F Jeebhay, T K Joshi, Margaret Keith, John R Keyserlingk, Kapil Khatter, David King, Naji Kodeih, John Kristensen, Vithaya Kulsomboon, Philip J Landrigan, Christopher W Lee, James Leigh, Richard A Lemen, Abby Lippman, Leslie London, Richard Matzopoulos, Jock McCulloch, Melissa A McDiarmid, Ramin Mehrdad, Dario Mirabelli, Hanns Moshammer, Éric Notebaert, Zuleica Nycz, Andrew F Oberta, John O'Connor, Rory O'Neill, Peter Orris, David Ozonoff, Domyung Paek, Christopher Rickard, Eduardo Jorge Rodriguez, Jennifer Sass, Kyla Elizabeth Sentes, Ian Mcd Simpson, Morando Soffritti, Colin L Soskolne, Sydney Price Sparling, Jerry Spiegel, Ken Takahashi, Tim K Takaro, Benedetto Terracini, Annie Thébaud-Mony, Ivancica Trosic, Fernand Turcotte, Cathy Vakil, Anita Van Der Walt, Yvonne R K Waterman, Andrew Watterson, David H Wegman, Laura S Welch, Stanley H Weiss, Robert Winston, Annalee Yassi

PMID: 23697697
DOI: 10.1080/19338244.2013.780807

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Asbestos, Serpentine / toxicity*
Environmental Policy / legislation & jurisprudence*
Government Regulation*
Humans
Occupational Health*
Pakistan

Substances

Asbestos, Serpentine