Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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Ray D. Strand
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 We must consider another aspect of air pollution: the occupational exposure to mineral dust such as asbestos fibers. The addition of iron-containing fibers in asbestos can generate even more free radicals. Long-term exposure has been shown to cause lung cancer and interstitial fibrosis (a serious scarring of the lung). There are many other occupational hazards: Farmers are exposed to the fine dust in their barns and grain bins. Industrial workers are exposed to various chemicals and fine dust in their work.
Needless to say, the quality of the air we breathe is a major health consideration. |
Mark Schapiro
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 In 1989, the EPA declared a ban on what amounted to more than 90 percent of all uses of asbestos, which it classified as a "known carcinogen." But industry challenged the agency and in 1991 a federal court vacated the ban, asserting that the EPA had not met TSCA's requirements for proof of harm balanced against the benefits of asbestos, and had not demonstrated that the ban was the "least burdensome alternative" for eliminating the "unreasonable risk" of exposure to the carcinogenic substance. |
| Regarding asbestos' potent carcinogenicity, a worldwide consensus had emerged from scientific research and from internal company tests pried free through legal action in Europe and in the United States (though the United States, unlike Europe, has yet to actually ban asbestos; more on that later). However, regarding most other chemicals, those to which we are exposed daily in everyday consumer products, there is little such information. The women in the Parliament that day wanted to increase their odds against those hidden chemical risks. |
Francisco, M.D. Contreras
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| The best known contaminants are asbestos, formaldehyde and lead.
Asbestos is highly prized for its cost effectiveness and resistance to heat. Almost all buildings have asbestos, particularly schools. In the US about 15 million children are exposed to it and yet, it is a proven cause of asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma, lung, mouth, larynx, esophagus, stomach, kidney and colon cancer. Developed countries have started to abandon the use of this material. Too late for the 11 million people who will die from cancer caused by asbestos products. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Regarding asbestos' potent carcinogenicity, a worldwide consensus had emerged from scientific research and from internal company tests pried free through legal action in Europe and in the United States (though the United States, unlike Europe, has yet to actually ban asbestos; more on that later). However, regarding most other chemicals, those to which we are exposed daily in everyday consumer products, there is little such information. The women in the Parliament that day wanted to increase their odds against those hidden chemical risks. |
| But industry challenged the agency and in 1991 a federal court vacated the ban, asserting that the EPA had not met TSCA's requirements for proof of harm balanced against the benefits of asbestos, and had not demonstrated that the ban was the "least burdensome alternative" for eliminating the "unreasonable risk" of exposure to the carcinogenic substance.19 More than thirty million pounds of asbestos is still sold in the United States each year, used as insulation in an array of products including brake shoes and industrial tiles. The agency has not acted to ban a chemical since that decision. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Many have had some connection with asbestos, often because of old insulation materials at home, work, or school, but few are likely to be personally acquainted with someone with actual asbestos-related lung disease. In contrast, most people directly know someone who has had carpal tunnel syndrome or may even have been diagnosed themselves with this condition. Given its current frequency, why is it that until ten or fifteen years ago hardly anyone had ever heard of carpal tunnel syndrome? Surely this is a prime example of a truly modern or even a postmodern industrial illness. |
| Do not be deceived by worthless materials, which are represented by unscrupulous parties as genuine asbestos roofing. . . . asbestos fire-proof paint; 75 cents per Gallon, white or light tints; for the protection of Factories, Bridges, Boiler Rooms, and other wooden structures in danger of ignition from sparks, cinders, or flames. It is also an economical and desirable substitute for white lead, for preserving the class of Outbuildings, Fences, etc., which are usually left unpainted. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 And in Libby, Montana, a town polluted by asbestos, recent studies conducted by the University of Montana's Center for Environmental Health Sciences show that local residents are 28.6 percent more likely to have antinuclear antibodies in their blood than a control group from a nearby town without asbestos pollution.
From Buffalo to Arizona, from Boston to Oklahoma, we live in an increasingly complex sea of autogenic agents. Added to that is the chemical load that we import into our own homes through the products, foods, and home goods we buy and consume. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Suppression of evidence since the 1930s on the hazards of asbestos and asbestosis and lung cancer, by Johns-Manville and Raybestos-Manhat-tan, besides the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company. This information was detailed in industry documents dubbed the "Asbestos Pentagon Papers," released at 1978 Congressional Hearings.
Suppression by Rohm and Haas of information, known since 1962 but not released until 1971, on the potent carcinogenicity of the resin bis-chloromethylether. This resulted in deaths from lung cancer of some 50 men, many non-smokers and under the age of 50. |
Stacy Malkan
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 The burden of proof is so high that the EPA hasn't even been able to ban certain uses of asbestos, and hasn't even tried to ban a toxic compound since it lost the asbestos fight in court 18 years ago. Under the weak US regulatory system, industrial chemicals are allowed onto the market with little or no health and safety data, consumer products can contain unlimited amounts of toxic chemicals, and there is no way for consumers or businesses to tell the difference between safe and hazardous products. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 Instead, contact a professional asbestos inspector to collect and analyze samples for asbestos. Do-it-yourselfers should not attempt asbestos repair or removal.
>• Install a HEPA filter in the bedroom and main living rooms in your home, particularly if it has recently been renovated using modern, chemically treated products.
>• When building with wood, use solid, untreated hardwood rather than chemically treated softwood such as pine. Also avoid using plywood, MDF (medium density fiberboard), or chipboard. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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| Even from this brief summary of air and water pollution, asbestos disease, carpal tunnel syndrome, sick buildings, and job burnout, it is abundantly clear that environmentally related illness, in and out of the workplace, is not a modern problem that we have only recently discovered in our own time. We still face old hazards and many new ones too: novel toxic threats that potentially emerge with each technological twist and innovation of human industry, creating ongoing dangers on the job, in the home, and for the wider environment. These are the collective challenges before us. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Whenever possible, choose to take action in decreasing your exposure to cancer-causing agents such as radiation, pesticides, herbicides, asbestos, charcoal, soot, and so on by purging them from your home environment.
A principle you will learn to appreciate is that if we reduce our exposure to all of these carcinogens, we will produce fewer free radicals for our body to fight. For example, it's difficult for me to recommend eating a healthy diet supplemented with nutritional medicine to a patient who is smoking two packs of cigarettes a day. |
| The addition of iron-containing fibers in asbestos can generate even more free radicals. Long-term exposure has been shown to cause lung cancer and interstitial fibrosis (a serious scarring of the lung). There are many other occupational hazards: Farmers are exposed to the fine dust in their barns and grain bins. Industrial workers are exposed to various chemicals and fine dust in their work.
Needless to say, the quality of the air we breathe is a major health consideration.
Cigarette Smoke
One might anticipate that smog or chemicals pose the biggest threat to our health on a daily basis. |
| The CARET Study
This study involved eighteen thousand smokers and asbestos workers who lived in Washington State. These patients received 15 mg of beta-carotene and 25,000 IU of straight vitamin A. Researchers monitored these patients over a four-year span, and again no decrease in the risk of cancer occurred in patients who were taking the supplements. Again, there was actually an increase in the incidence of lung cancer in the group that was taking beta-carotene and vitamin A.29
The Physicians' Health Study
This study followed more than twenty-two thousand U.S. |
| Excessive exposure to sunlight increases the risk of skin cancer. asbestos workers have increased risk of developing an unusual form of lung cancer called mesothelioma. Smoking and secondary smoke are the main reasons lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths. Radiation, charcoal steaks, too much fat in our diet, saccharin, and the many other chemicals found in herbicides and pesticides are what medical literature refers to as carcinogens, or those things that increase our risk of developing cancer. |
Mark Schapiro
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| More than thirty million pounds of asbestos is still sold in the United States each year, used as insulation in an array of products including brake shoes and industrial tiles. The agency has not acted to ban a chemical since that decision.
One of TSCA's most significant weaknesses, according to Joseph Guth, a biochemist and lawyer who works as legal director of the Science and Environmental Health Network, is that by making it easier to hang onto old chemicals rather than develop new ones, it provides no incentive for developing less toxic alternatives. "TSCA rewards ignorance," Guth said. |
Stacy Malkan
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| Kimbrell feels strongly that the FDA must act quickly if the agency hopes to avoid past regulatory failures such as asbestos, DDT and PCBs.
More environmental health studies are urgently needed. Only 4% of the $9 billion dedicated to nanotechnology research in 2006 went to environmental and health research. "What we're left with are early studies that raise warning flags and no follow-up," Kimbrell said. "We need a real regulatory framework that protects public health and the environment. |
| In one of the most dramatic failures of regulation since the introduction of asbestos, corporations around the world are rapidly introducing thousands of tons of nanomaterials into the environment and onto the faces and hands of hundreds of millions of people, despite the growing body of evidence indicating that nanomaterials can be toxic for humans and the environment," said a May 2006 report by Friends of the Earth. |
Mark Schapiro
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| Just up the road from the Parliament, on the other side of the Pare Leopold, the Berlaymont had undergone a thirteen-year restoration when asbestos was found floating out of the walls and ceilings into the offices of European commissioners and their staff. The entire commission was put into temporary quarters from 1991 until 2004, when the billion-dollar cleanup and renovation was completed. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Doctors have known for many years that exposure to toxic chemicals like asbestos or cleaning fluids can make people sick. But some people develop medical symptoms after moving into new buildings, leaving doctors stumped about the cause. Eventually, these patients were said to have developed "sick building syndrome," another medically unexplained illness. The symptoms included eye, nose, or throat irritation; dry cough; dry or itchy skin; dizziness and nausea; difficulty concentrating; fatigue; and sensitivity to odors. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 You should also note that a similar damaging effect can happen when you're exposed to indoor pollutants like radon, asbestos, mite dust, and mold. Molds, for instance, produce mycotoxins, which weaken or kill the things they live on or compete with. Short-term exposure can cause breathing problems, and the research indicates that long-term exposure may also be linked to cancer.
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If you don't smoke but live or work in a smoke-filled environment, that's still going to age you. Spending just one hour in the presence of secondhand smoke is the equivalent of your smoking four cigarettes. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 It is just one of more than 4,000 chemicals in tobacco including formaldehyde, cyanide, arsenic, carbon monoxide, methane, asbestos, ammonia and benzene.9 If you ever made the mistake of smoking, think back to the very first time you inhaled. For many, it was a horrible experience that led to a major coughing fit. Your body is not stupid. It knows when something is wrong. It was rejecting the poison of the cigarette. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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| Others include dioxins, asbestos, and particulate matter (those are the particles produced by the combustion of diesel, gasoline, and other fuels, and tobacco smoke). Air pollution caused by particulate matter so small that it can't be seen is what aggravates and leads to respiratory (and cardiovascular) problems—and even death. How? Particles from the polluted air that are too small to be filtered out by the cilia travel deep into the lungs. |
Devra Davis
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 Many of Kehoe's students at Kettering would go on to distinguished careers in industrial hygiene, including Eula Bingham, who became director of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 1976, and Paul Kotin, who became the first director of the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences in 1968 and later worked for the asbestos industry. The impressive new facilities at the University of Cincinnati became a major center for studies requested by industry, providing private advice to companies and never releasing results unless given permission to do so. |
Bill Sardi
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 American Journal Industrial Medicine 43:295-305, 2003] If you are a smoker, you may have been asked about your exposure to asbestos fibers that can enter the lungs and induce cancer. But you have probably never heard about the risk posed by iron.
The fact the iron chelators (molecules that removes iron) are employed with some anti-cancer drugs is a veiled admission that iron is an undesirable agent in lung cancer progression. [Cancer Biotherapy Radiopharm 20:467-78, 2005]
There is more to learn. Black men develop lung cancer at a higher rate than do Caucasian men. |
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