DEVELOPING countries are importing a health time bomb from Canada that is set
to explode in around 30 years, says Antti Tossavainen of the Finnish Institute
of Occupational Health.
Canada produced 335,000 tonnes of asbestos last year, he says. Yet domestic
use is low because of strict national asbestos controls. So 98 per cent went to
export markets, mostly in South-East Asia and South America, making Canada the
largest exporter of asbestos in the world.
Tossavainen told the Congress of the European Respiratory Society in Berlin
this week that Canada could stop production without severe economic
consequences. “The market…
