Asbestos - Safer than Water? - 30/07/2010

The driving force calling for a ban on chrysotile is the mass of vested interests. Claims-lawyers looking to expand their potential compensation markets by 85%, unions, doctors and victim support groups receiving commissions from lawyers for referrals of their members and patients. At the commercial level are the alternative fibre producers, unable to compete with the cheapness and uniqueness of chrysotile cement products to removal contractors and surveyors using this exaggerated risk to condemn materials for costly removal that could be better managed in-situ.

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To export Chrysotile Asbestos through the Port of Santos is allowed - 27/07/2010

Foreign trade of goods containing asbestos / “chrysotile” asbestos variety (white asbestos) was allowed at the Port of Santos, in a decision upheld on 07/15 by a federal judge Décio Gabriel Gimenez, substitute judge of the 4th Federal Court in Santos / SP.

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LOBBY AGAINST ASBESTOS DISSEMINATES FALSE ALLEGATIONS IN BRAZIL AND IN THE WORLD - 26/07/2010

Instituto Brasileiro do Crisotila - IBC (Brazilian Chrysotile Institute), a public interest entity, whose goal is to promote and defend the safe use of chrysotile asbestos, raises its voice to denounce and warn the Brazilian media, the scientific community and the public in general, against the worldwide campaign launched by the British giant BBC News to pressure the governments of developing countries to ban the use of this mineral in the fiber cement industry.

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Chrysotile Asbestos: The truth must prevail - 22/07/2010

It’s not the lack of information that vitiates the discussion on the use of chrysotile asbestos, but to manipulate data to suit the interests of certain niches. Society can not be at the mercy of it. The truth, in any event, should prevail.

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The disease related to asbestos chrysotile already ended in Brazil - 20/07/2010

The misinformation, as well as a lie repeated several times, is extremely harmful to society. But unfortunately there are people, companies and even public institutions that in the name of a false precaution principle prefer to accept half-truths.  And what is worst: as the false argumentations fall down, they are replaced without any scruples.

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