The ban on asbestos
Is it not time, asbestos is banned completely?
The mining, manufacture and use of asbestos to a variety of diseases such as fibrosis, asbestosis, asbestos warts, lung, plates pleurales, diffuse thickening, and pleural effusion terrible disease, “mesothelioma”. Asbestos has been put into operation as soon as the antiquity, the Greeks themselves. Even the Romans and the Persians have used. It served to whip-lamps and has been woven in the clothing worn by the slaves.
The Greeks first notice that something is not right with asbestos. They have found that the lungs of the slaves who are in the clothing fabric asbestos become ill. Only in the year 1900, medical researchers woke the harmful effects of asbestos. In the years 1930, the diseases caused by asbestos were canceled. However, mesothelioma has been identified only in the years 1940. England was the first country that has the mining, use and manufacture of asbestos. Then USA asbestos. Although slowly into the efforts, Japan also has the mining and use of asbestos. The developed countries banned, or at least severely restricted the use of asbestos. But the developing countries are not showing the same effectiveness, the ban on asbestos.
Asbestos is a mineral fiber materials, fire resistant, resistant to chemicals and flexible. It is a chemical that is very useful for the majority of people in developing countries. Because the ignorance of the harmful effects that they use. Thus, the asbestos industry is a thriving industry in most developing countries. The industries of asbestos are in the possession of rich politicians or the media. So they cover up to the reports of the research and provides no information on the harmful effects of asbestos. In addition, they proposed that scientific evidence about the harmful effects of Mesothelioms are absent. So, it is harmful chemicals manufactured and used widely in many developing countries like India and China, in India, while all other types of asbestos, he has not enforced a ban on white asbestos. In India, only to cases of mesothelioma I0000 occur each year.
Another problem is that the latency time of mesothelioma is very high. That is, the time between exposure to asbestos fibers and the incidence of mesothelioma can be up to 20 to 30 years. So many people spend the jobs in that time, and therefore they have no connection mesothelioma, in which they work or live in the vicinity of the asbestos industry. Sweden is the first country to show a decline in the incidence of Mesothelioms for a ban on asbestos. It has about 20 cases per million population per year.
As the mesothelioma is a huge period of latency, the researchers in the medical expect that the vast majority of patients with mesothelioma between 2020 and 2040. In the developed countries, it is expected that more than one million people died of Mesothelioms in the coming decades. Had this been the case in the developed countries, the situation in the developing countries, which banned asbestos, nor was, and none of the security or pension, is frightening. A comprehensive ban on the mining, manufacture and use of all types of asbestos in all countries is the best solution to this problem.
