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Johnson & Johnson was handed a jury verdict for $72 million this week in the case of a woman who died from ovarian cancer. She, and dozens of others, sued the company in the St. Louis Circuit Court in a case alleging that use of talcum powder, also known as baby powder, increases the risk …
Last week the World Health Organization (WHO) and their International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC) released a statement classifying processed meats as Group 1 carcinogens. Numerous headlines covering this story reported “Processed Meats and Asbestos in Same Category.” Can this really be true? “Asbestos and hot dogs are not even in the same hazard …
Fedor Zarkhin, writer for The Oregonian|OregonLive, wrote an article, “Unsettling dust: Hundreds of Portland homes demolished with asbestos inside,” this week. It exposed poor demolition practices in the tear-down of hundreds of Portland homes. While Oregon regulations require asbestos removal by licensed contractors, the rules are weak and few contractors even know they exist. With …
While it’s been known for decades that there is asbestos in many building products, insulation materials, boilers, ships, and car parts, few people realized that asbestos also shows up in childrens’ toys. A recent article at asbestosnation.org has exposed this danger publicly. Since 2000, Federal health authorities have known that some crayon brands made in …
The Prospective Netherland Cohort Study gathered data for more than 17 years on 58,279 Norwegian men between 55 and 69 years of age. The amount of asbestos exposure was estimated by linkage to job-exposure matrices. Purpose The study was to determine the association between asbestos exposure length and intensity as applied to contracting pleural mesothelioma, lung …
