Germany one of the countries in the 1940s has been acknowledged asbestos is one of the disease risk of work. But in the European Union took about 60 years, exactly in 2005 to ban the production and use of asbestos. Unfortunately, the rest of the world using of asbestos is still widely applied. Scientist Rolf Packroff very disappointed about this, “since 1988 asbestos production in the worlds has declined by about 50%. The decline in each country is different. As in Europe, have banned asbestos produced. So also with South Africa, asbestos is also no longer produced due to the ban. Unfortunately, some countries still manufactured asbestos in significant amounts.
The cause of asbestos still produced in several countries
Why some countries still producing asbestos?. All of this is the result of economic interests far greater than the problem of labor protection. In some countries the supporters of asbestos are still trying to sell their material, they have a strong lobby so that sellers of asbestos are keeping running smoothly. Some countries has a large source of asbestos, one of the asbestos their exported is white asbestos, called chrysotile.
One of the reasons for supporters of asbestos in some countries in order to remain able to produce asbestos is to say that white asbestos is not harmless when compared with other types of asbestos, so it is safe to use. This contrast with a study conducted by the toxicology experts, according to scientists Packroff through his research concluded there was no significant difference between white asbestos with other types of asbestos.
Nevertheless, WHO will continue to seek ban on asbestos use to minimize cases of disease caused by asbestos exposure.
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