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Canada Blocks UN from Declaring Asbestos a "Hazardous" Substance

Submitted on July 21, 2011

By Jake Silver - WSWS

Canada’s Conservative government has prevented asbestos — a notorious carcinogen responsible for tens of thousands of deaths each year — from being listed as a hazardous substance under the United Nations’ Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade.

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