After accusations that the government in Ottawa has tried to bury the scientific reports that confirm the relationship between exposure to chrysotile asbestos and asbestos-related diseases such as mesothelioma, related to the history view, the Canadian government has finally published two reports that were carried out over a year ago.
A six-member expert group commissioned by the Ministry of Health of Canada met in November 2007 to discuss the relationship between exposure to chrysotile asbestos and asbestos-related diseases such as pleural mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma and cancer lung. The chairman of the group presented two reports to the Ministry of Health Canada in March 2008, however, reports were not released until over a year later and four months after a request for access to information submitted to the agency.
Canada is the fifth largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos in 2006 was international and the only Western nation to oppose listing chrysotile as a hazardous chemical under the UN's Rotterdam Convention.
The chairman of the group of experts who authored the report criticizes the Canadian government to delay release of the reports, expressing concern that the government was covering up political and economic interests as scientific decisions.
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A six-member expert group commissioned by the Ministry of Health of Canada met in November 2007 to discuss the relationship between exposure to chrysotile asbestos and asbestos-related diseases such as pleural mesothelioma, peritoneal mesothelioma and cancer lung. The chairman of the group presented two reports to the Ministry of Health Canada in March 2008, however, reports were not released until over a year later and four months after a request for access to information submitted to the agency.
Canada is the fifth largest exporter of chrysotile asbestos in 2006 was international and the only Western nation to oppose listing chrysotile as a hazardous chemical under the UN's Rotterdam Convention.
The chairman of the group of experts who authored the report criticizes the Canadian government to delay release of the reports, expressing concern that the government was covering up political and economic interests as scientific decisions.
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