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:: Saturday, November 29, 2003 ::
Cancerous Complacence By Matt Bivens, The Nation
Three years ago, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer came out with a startling investigative report. It began: "Millions of brakes on cars and trucks -- and millions more waiting on parts-shop shelves nationwide -- contain asbestos fibers that can kill mechanics." The report found broad acknowledgment of health risks to some 750,000 car mechanics across America –- because changing brake shoes or even changing tires can send up clouds of carcinogenic asbestos dust. It documented that federal officials had done less and less each year to police asbestos in brakes; while everyone from the mechanics to cancer researchers to government regulators seemed to have assumed asbestos brakes were long ago banned.
They weren't.------------------------------------------- posted 6:55 AM :: reference link ::
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