challenges and progress in preventing asbestos exposure
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Asbestos:The Poster Child for 1976 TSCA Failure
Linda Reinstein, Co-Founder/President
Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO)
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1989: EPA Bans Asbestos
1991: Ban Overturned After Industry Sues@Linda_ADAO
What is Asbestos?
Where is Asbestos?
“During 1999–2015, the annual number
of malignant mesothelioma deaths
increased 4.8% overall”
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31 Million Metric Tons
Asbestos Consumption 1900 - 2016
NIOSH: “Firefighters in the study had a rate of
mesothelioma two times greater than the rate
in the U.S. population as a whole.”
$4.6 million in imported asbestos
contaminated consumer goods (2015 USA)
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President Obama Signs TSCA Reform into Law
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@Linda_ADAOSOURCE: World Health Organization
“In 2015, the Department of Commerce
submitted a report to Congress stating
approximately $2.2 million in brake
friction materials containing asbestos was
imported into the U.S. in 2013.”
Asbestos Brake Friction Imports (2013)
- Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association
Chlor-Alkali Asbestos Exposure Pathways
1. Mining and Milling
2. Transporting
3. Storage
4. Chlor-alkali Processing
5. Spillage and Clean-up
6. Removal/Replacement of Asbestos Diaphragms
7. Disposal
Asbestos Importers
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