Crocidolite (blue asbestos) was mined at Wittenoom Gorge in Western Australia from 1937 until 1966. From 1943 a single company (the Australian Blue Asbestos Company) was involved and details of ...

Chrysotile was raised in one case but crocidolite and amosite were also increased. The gas mask workers showed a consistent pattern with high crocidolite concentrations and normal or low ...

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Crocidolite, a highly carcinogenic type of asbestos, has been found exposed at a hotel damaged by the January 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake and subsequent heavy rains in ...

Micronite filters, which use crocidolite asbestos, were exclusively used in Kent cigarettes from 1952 to 1956. Crocidolite is a blue asbestos matching the viral photographs shared on social media.

SUZU, Ishikawa -- Crocidolite, a highly carcinogenic type of asbestos, has been found exposed at a hotel damaged by the January 2024 Noto Peninsula ea ...

Crocidolite asbestos, or blue asbestos, can cause lung cancer. (Image credit: Eric Taylor, Kent State University and Steven Lower, The Ohio State University) ...

The First Schedule of the Customs (Prohibition of Imports) Order 2012 prohibits the import of crocidolite, actinolite, anthophyllite, amosite, and tremolite.

"Where crocidolite is recorded as present, this would be in specialist services or plant areas which are not accessible by patients, public and general staff," the spokesman confirmed.

NEW BRUNSWICK - Council for the defendants, including Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Consumer Products and its supplier, Imerys Talc America, and Cyprus Amax Minerals, among others, “must streamline ...

In Gwynedd, £539,130 has been spent on removal with all three of the major types of asbestos – crocidolite, grunerite and chrysotile – having been found within its buildings.

Two thirds of schools in Coventry contain potentially harmful asbestos. A total of 38 of the 57 schools of which the council is responsible for (66 per cent) contain the substance, a Freedom of ...