When the EPA finally banned the use of asbestos in March of this year, some people were confused.  Wasn't it already banned?  Well, not exactly. There had been a partial ban for years.

The Scientific American has an excellent history of asbestos and it’s movement toward banning. Read the article.

Because of the long latency period of many cancers caused by as­­best­os—and the difficulty of knowing all the circumstances in which people might have been exposed to asbestos outside industrial settings—it is hard to say just how many people have died or are still dying from asbestos. The University of Washington–based In­­sti­tute for Health Metrics and Evaluation estimates that as­­best­os caused more than 40,764 worker deaths in 2019 alone; this figure does not include deaths outside industrial settings, such as those of family members exposed to asbestos brought home on a worker’s clothes or shoes.

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Read The Article

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asbestos-is-finally-banned-in-the-u-s-heres-why-it-took-so-long/

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