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Nigel DuPree
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Nono's in 'cleaning products' already giving office cleaners significant problems in USA while still waiting for action on Screen Fatigue and verdict on un-leaded fuel and diesol particulates that can no longer be seen in the absense of black smoke from lorries.....................
H & S gonna have to be included in national Curriculum if we are ever going to seprarate the Social Myth and tabloid emotional response from the reality of Risk Management ...
Join the Self-preservation Society and keep asking question as the only real defence to ignorance and apathy while remembering "Success is NO Accident"
Have a safe day
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Robert Moloney
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An interesting article it would be good to have feed back on the questions.
As electronics can be found in every part of modern life from the work place to the home.
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Damon Rowley
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If past experience is anything to go by, regulators wont do antyhing until there is scientific proof that nanotubes cause cancer. Mesothelioma is not detectable until typically 15 years after exposure to asbestos. Add another 10 years of disputing and dithering by the governements of the world and we are talking 25 years before legislation.
If we have to wait 25 years of people being exposed until the government does anything about it, nanoptubes will be the biggest industrial killer of the 21st century as asbestos has been for the 20th century. Unless of course, insudtyry has the foresight to prevent future litigation by assuming the worst and putting effective controls in place now.
If you think the above view is over pessimistic, ceramic fibres and MDF are both believed to be linked to life threatening cinditrions but the Government is still happy for us to keep filling our homes with both.
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Andrew Auty
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The structural similarity between two forms of dust is not a rational basis on which to assess the potential for liability exposure and neither is the reported "same toxicological behaviour". Reporting such short cuts as if meaningful is demeaning to the methodical, logical, evidence based approach adopted by liability risk managers. Pathogenetic mechanism is not established by such flimsy allusions to similarity.
Focusing attention on mesothelioma as the only outcome of interest is also potentially very misleading...if convenient to those who seek research funding or a good story.
A report of the above style could be classified as entertainment...but without a rational framework into which to place this form of reporting it could waste a great deal of time, and trust in science is demeaned.
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