Most people think the use of asbestos has been banned, but it has not. Although there are more controls in place by the Consumer Products Safety Commission, information obtained from the Environmental Working Group website states that an estimated 1.5 million pounds of asbestos is contained in products that are sold in the US every year.

          The EPA has tried to ban asbestos in the past, with no success.  You would think with so much illness caused by asbestos it would have been banned by now.  Since the effects of asbestos often do not appear for decades, even if asbestos were banned today, the ill-effects from asbestos exposure would go on for 50 or more years.  Continuing to use asbestos is wrong and totally inexcusable.  This non-action only increases the numbers of needless illnesses and deaths for many years to come.             EWG is a nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC that uses the power of information to protect human health and the environment. The group’s research on asbestos is available online at http://www.ewg.org/node/26066.

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