Tag Archives: National Institute of Occupational Health

Gujarat Composite Ltd: A Case Study

Posted on April 22, 2011 by admin

// A guest post by Mohit Gupta, GBAN member Shree Digvijay Cement (SDCL) started commercial production of cement in 1949. A plant to manufacture asbestos cement pipes was commissioned in Nov.’62, with Johns Manville Corporation, being the technical consultant. In … Continue reading →

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Asbestos: One Word. One Week. One World.

Posted on March 28, 2011 by admin
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As a mesothelioma widow, I find it appalling, inhumane, and reprehensible that the Indian Supreme Court today refused to ban asbestos! Linda Reinstein

Posted on January 21, 2011 by admin
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“Why are our estimates for missed mesothelioma cases so low?” by Dr. Ken Takahashi

Posted on January 17, 2011 by admin

We already received some feedbacks from readers of our Ahead-of-Print paper of Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) entitled “Global magnitude of reported and unreported mesothelioma.” Several points merit mention in response to the shared concern “why are the estimates so low?” Exact … Continue reading →

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India: The Rajasthan Asbestos Mine Workers’ Dharna is Successful

Posted on January 8, 2011 by admin

In 2007, the National Institute of Occupational Health conducted a test on Asbestos mining, studying and surveying 164 mine workers to determine the prevalence of the occupational disease Asbestosis. Of those 164 labourers, 93 mine workers were suspected of suffering … Continue reading →

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India: “Rajasthan miners demand their health test report”

Posted on January 7, 2011 by admin
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