Serious health problems associated with asbestos fibers have been connected to the first discovery in the first century after Christ. They started from a higher status in the Hellenistic and Roman times, the problems of its trading conditions and models of lung disease began to see that happen in people, which is given for a job weaving asbestos is connected.

On post mortem examination amplify awareness of diseases found with these minerals in 1900, when a model comes at a young factory worker, the presence of asbestos fibers bound in the lungs. There is concern that inhalation of dust, if the aid does not cause the death of these workers at least.

But only in the 1920s, the study of public health really the case, the report submitted by a pathologist named Dr. Cooke introduced. The case description of a 33-year-old woman victim of the disease supported further study of asbestos textile workers to asbestos, and subsequently lead to increased production of asbestos regulation and management of contaminated food. A disease called asbestosis, asbestos kills inspection workers.

Recorded in the year 1936 for the further development of research on the health effects of asbestos dust, and is sponsored by a group of asbestos companies. Companies willing to provide the necessary support, but which are necessary in return for the results of asbestos surveys to gain control over them. Then it was found that in 1950 the company has removed all references to cancer before the publication of research results.

80’s show high anxiety in many parts of the world if America went Asbestos Ban and Phase-out rule, which was reversed in the development of corrosion-proof. It was in 1995 by Australia and New Zealand in 2002, followed by a ban on imports of raw chrysotile and amphibole.

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