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Asbestos…in your attic?

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

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While asbestos is generally associated with big businesses in manufacturing, it has also been used in other various products throughout most of the 20th Century. One of the products includes the insulation in the attics of homes built (or remodeled) before the late 1980s.

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Contractors used this harmful substance because it was durable, fireproof, light, and an excellent insulator. However, if asbestos fibers are inhaled, they can attach themselves to the linings of the body’s organs and stay there. This can cause several types of respiratory diseases, including asbestosis and a rare, but almost always fatal, cancer — mesothelioma.

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A type of asbestos insulation called vermiculite was used in millions of homes between the 1920s and the late 1980s. This mineral substance was mined by W.R. Grace & Company near Libby, Montana. The mine was asbestos contaminated, and any vermiculite from the mine is also contaminated. Unfortunately, millions of homes in the United States used this vermiculite insulation.

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Trick ‘r Treat film If you suspect that your home is contaminated with this asbestos-laden insulation, you should call a licensed professional asbestos inspector. If asbestos is found, you can choose to remove the insulation or install new insulation over the contaminated insulation. While being more expensive, complete removal is the only way to ensure the asbestos won’t cause problems in the future.

Asbestos To Go

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

The most notorious industrial carcinogen—asbestos—knows no borders. It does not discriminate on basis of race, gender, or occupation. As we learned too late, asbestos fibers are a lot more mobile than was originally assumed, causing widespread cases of the deadly cancer mesothelioma. Take, for instance, the family of Yvonne Power.

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Yvonne’s father spent the early 1960s cutting asbestos boards for ceiling tiles. He later died of mesothelioma. So did Yvonne’s mother and sister. How could two women (neither of whom had ever stepped foot in an asbestos factory) contract a disease whose only known cause is exposure to an industrial material they may have never even seen?

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Gridlock’d dvd We now know that asbestos fibers are practically made to travel. Asbestos is naturally a fairly friable material, meaning that it can be easily broken into smaller and smaller pieces. The particles of asbestos that are inhaled are usually too small to be seen.

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These tiny fibers easily infiltrate soft, porous materials such as the clothing that Yvonne’s father wore to work. Cleaning clothes dirtied with asbestos fibers is a long and trying task that can involve multiple washes and intense scrubbing.

While Yvonne played in the garden, her mother and sister shouldered the laundry duties. It was this aversion to housework that saved Yvonne from a fatal cancer. By not washing her father’s contaminated clothes, she avoided exposure to the lurking asbestos.

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Too many others were not this lucky. To add insult to injury, legal technicalities can make it difficult for a person to seek compensation for mesothelioma contracted through common household chores. This makes it all the more important that persons who are diagnosed with mesothelioma contact an experienced mesothelioma attorney as soon as possible–asbestos may not discriminate, but people do.

Tainted toys put children at risk of asbestos exposure

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Chinese-made toys, tainted with asbestos, are on the shelves of thousands of toy stores across the country and may put many American children at risk of asbestos exposure.

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Even limited exposure to asbestos can cause mesothelioma, an incurable form of lung cancer, decades later.

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Though it is no longer in production, the CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit had been found to contain asbestos in its white and glow powder.

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) has tested many products and found several containing asbestos, including additional children’s toys. This can be a difficult process because it is no longer a common practice to use asbestos in manufacturing.

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Other common products which have been found to contain at least trace amounts of asbestos are Scotch High Performance and All Weather Duct tapes, DAP Crack Shot Spackling Paste, DAP 33 Window Glazing and Gardner Leak Stopper.

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Because asbestos exposure is considered highly preventable, especially among children, families affected by contaminated toys or other products should consider consulting an expert mesothelioma attorney for professional insight and to learn more about developing a mesothelioma lawsuit.