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Ain't necessarily so!": The brake industry's impact on asbestos regulation in the 1970s

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  • Rosner, D.
  • Markowitz, G.

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Canada is proposing a ban on asbestos, and the US Environmental Protection Agency has listed it among the first 10 materials it is investigating under the new Toxic Substances Control Act revisions. However, this effort is currently running up against enormous industry and political opposition. Here, we detail the activities in the early 1970s of the Friction Materials Standards Institute, an industry trade association, to stifle earlier attempts to regulate asbestos use in brake linings, one of the oldest and most obvious sources of asbestos exposure to mechanics, among others.

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  • Rosner, D. & Markowitz, G., 2017. "Ain't necessarily so!": The brake industry's impact on asbestos regulation in the 1970s," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 107(9), pages 1395-1399.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2017.303901_3
    DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2017.303901
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    1. Richard A. Lemen & Philip J. Landrigan, 2017. "Toward an Asbestos Ban in the United States," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 14(11), pages 1-16, October.

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