The New York Times article that was published on 20 June 2011, warns that "the increase in mortality rates in the coming decades, the intensive use of asbestos" specifically "in Asia over the next 20 years." Article cites as their resource, The Official Journal of the Asian Pacific Society of Respirology "which has published a new study shows that the share of the global use of asbestos, attributed to Asia have grown over the years from 14% (1920-1970) to 33% (1971-2000) to 64% (2001-2007). This increase is reflected in the absolute level of per capita consumption of a wide range of countries. In contrast, 12.882 ARD deaths were recorded together in Asia, which is equivalent to only 13% of the cumulative count of ARD deaths in the world for the same period. High AAMRs were recorded in Cyprus (4.8), Israel (3.7) and Japan (3.3), all of which have banned the use of asbestos.
"India, China and several other large Asian countries do not record data, so their asbestos official death count may be artificially low, the study said" a number of countries, including Japan and South Korea banned the mineral after they saw death up. "
According to the Asia monitor Resource Centre (Director), an independent organization that focuses on the problems of Asia, "China, India, Indonesia and Thailand are among the largest consumers of asbestos. Because the markets in the West is shrinking, asbestos is actively encouraged in Asia. "
"In spite of the widespread use of reported cases of asbestos-related disease, surprisingly little and reported cases of mesothelioma are rare in Asia except Japan, Korea and Singapore. But this does not mean that the problem does not exist. The problem is diagnosis. Most of the asbestos-related disease is not diagnosed in Asia and thus do not appear in official statistics. This lethal substance kills the workers. Unless drastic measures to stop the use of Asian workers, as well as the general public will pay a high price. "
Since mineral naturally occurs worldwide, many countries have mined asbestos for domestic use and export. Unfortunately some countries continued to process, use and export of this toxic substance. Today, Asia accounts for more than 45% of world demand for asbestos. Since the developed countries to ban or drastically reduce their consumption of asbestos, the carcinogenic material exporters have worked hard to develop alternative markets. For Asian companies this requirement becomes a tool for cheap and efficient raw materials for industrial use and the capacity to supply Asian asbestos in neighbouring countries and thus became a cause of real potential danger to the health and safety of workers in Asia.
Here are some resources to learn more about the use of asbestos and health problems throughout the world:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/21/Health/21global.HTML? & EMC _r = 2 = TNT & tntemail0 = y
http://onlinelibrary.Wiley.com/DOI/10.1111/j.1440-1843.2011.01975.x/abstract
http://www.AMRC.org.HK/System/Files/Asbestos-Asia_0.PDF
http://ibasecretariat.org/ktf_web_fin.PDF
http://ibasecretariat.org/hk_report_web_fin.PDF
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