How conflicted authors undermine the World Health Organization (WHO) campaign to stop all use of asbestos: Spotlight on studies showing that chrysotile is carcinogenic and facilitates other non-cancer asbestos-related diseases

International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Health

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 176-179

  Baur, Xaver ^a   Soskolne, Colin L ^b,c   Lemen, Richard A ^d   Schneider, Joachim ^e   Woitowitz, Hans Joachim ^e   Budnik, Lygia Therese ^f  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANBERRA   (Australia)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asbestos related diseases; Chrysotile; Conflict of interests; Lung cancer; White asbestos; WHO campaign to end all use of asbestos

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN; CHRYSOTILE;

ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANIMAL; CAUSALITY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; LUNG DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALS; ASBESTOS, SERPENTINE; CARCINOGENS; CAUSALITY; CONFLICT OF INTEREST; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; LUNG DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84937114041     PISSN: 10773525     EISSN: 20493967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/2049396714Y.0000000105     Document Type: Article

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