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6 results for “Union Carbide Corporation”

  1. Medical study · Medical research · 2004

    Re: Controlled use of asbestos

    …authors argued that controlled use was the latest in a series of corporate misrepresentations of asbestos risk. They examined Union Carbide Corporation's (UCC) claims that Calidria, a chrysotile mined from the Coalinga deposit in California…

  2. Medical study · Medical research · 2004

    Participatory mapping of occupational hazards and disease among asbestos-exposed workers from a foundry and insulation complex in Canada

    …complex in Sarnia, Ontario. The Occupational Health Clinics for Ontario Workers and the Canadian Auto Workers union did it to support compensation claims. Former workers drew 'hazard maps' of their workplaces from memory. Foundry workers described…

  3. Medical study · Medical research · 2004

    Asbestosis in the Republic of Croatia

    …of asbestos. Croatia as a transitional country is subject to socioeconomic pressures. Future approaches to the asbestos issue will depend on revised regulations, which are expected to conform to recommendations of the European Union by 2005.

  4. Medical study · Medical research · 2004

    Asbestos in Italy

    Asbestos-related diseases remain common in Italy due to past exposures that were tolerated by a government distracted and manipulated by multinational asbestos corporations. The incidence of asbestos-related cancers has taken on almost epidemic proportions…

  5. Medical study · Medical research · 2006

    Banning asbestos in Asia: campaigns and strategies by the Asian Network for the Rights of Occupational Accident Victims (ANROAV)

    …Victims (ANROAV), a network of victims' groups, labor NGOs, trade unions and labor activists. Citing other sources, the author wrote that Asian countries accounted for about 60% of global asbestos consumption in 2000, mostly chrysotile used…

  6. Medical study · Medical research · 2004

    Asbestos in Scotland

    …of government regulatory initiatives, and the ramifications of contracting asbestos-related diseases for sufferers and their families. Current issues are investigated, stressing the agency of workers, trade unions, sympathetic local councils, and, especially, the victims' pressure…