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Government Funding of Chrysotile Institute to Stop

Tuesday, March 8, 2011
 
The Canadian government has spent millions of dollars supporting the Asbestos Industry.  As part of this support, The Chrysotile Institute has received annual funding.  The Institute is an Asbestos Industry lobbying group that promotes the use and export of chrysotile asbestos in developing countries.
 
Over 100,000 people die each year as a result of asbestos exposure.   The Canadian Cancer Society, health organizations, and universities, have repeatedly urged the federal government to cease funding of the Institute, noting that chrysotile asbestos causes cancer and other disease.   
 
It is our view as Canadian experts in epidemiology and occupational medicine and as public health advocates that the Chrysotile Institute is endangering public health by disseminating misleading and untruthful information about chrysotile asbestos, especially in the world’s emerging economies. . . . The Institute puts forward the nonsensical, unsubstantiated claim that chrysotile asbestos disappears when it is mixed with cement and consequently becomes harmless not only now, but for all time to come. This distorted, out-of-date and out-of-context information is quite contrary to that from leading scientific institutions - such as the World Health Organization (WHO), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the U.S.  Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety & Health (NIOSH), and the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) regarding the health risks of chrysotile asbestos. These institutions, as well as the overwhelming worldwide scientific consensus, have called for chrysotile asbestos to be banned. The Chrysotile Institute censors reports from respected scientific bodies around the world, including Canada and Quebec itself, which state that chrysotile asbestos is a deadly carcinogen and that there is no safe use possible in the construction environment in developing countries. The Institute’s misleading propaganda is financed, in large part, by the Canadian federal government. It is a
slur on the reputation of the scientific community and people of Canada for the government to be funding such censorship and perversion of scientific information. But, this is a far more serious matter than a slur on our country’s scientific integrity. People’s lives continue to be put at risk if they put their trust in the Chrysotile Institute’s information. 
(From 1/23/09 Letter to the Canadian Prime Minister From Scientists at Universite Laval, University of Ottawa, University of Alberta, Simon Fraser University, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Rideau Institute.)
 
For the first time, the Canadian government recently announced it will cease its annual funding of the Chrysotile Institute.

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