2017 ADAO EPA Meeting Resources

Dr. Richard Lemen, Dr. L. Christine Oliver, Brent Kynoch, Liz Hitchcock, Dr. Celeste Monforton and Linda Reinstein

Educational Resources

• • CDC NORMs report showing increase in mesothelioma deaths
  • CDC March 3, 2017 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) Cancer Screening Tests Use — United States, 2015 
  • U.S. Senate Report: Failing the Grade: Asbestos in America’s Schools (2015)
  • U.S. Surgeon General’s Statement on Asbestos (2016)
  • U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Report on Asbestos (2016)
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH): NIOSH Study of Firefighters Finds Increased Rates of Cancer (2013)
  • President Obama signs the Frank R Lautenberg Chemical Safety Act (2016)
  • American Public Health Association: Policy Statement: Elimination of Asbestos (2009)
  • Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families: Asbestos (2016)
  • ADAO Campaign: “Asbestos: See For Yourself”
  • ADAO Graphics: “Identifying Asbestos in Your Home” and “How Small Is Asbestos?”
  • U.S. President’s Cancer Panel (PCP): “Reducing Environmental Cancer Risk: What We Can Do Now” (2010)
  • Malignant mesothelioma due to asbestos exposure in dental tape (2017)
  • Exposure-response analysis of risk of respiratory disease associated with occupational exposure to chrysotile asbestos. (1997)
  • Low-dose exposure to asbestos and lung cancer: dose-response relations and interaction with smoking in a population-based case-referent study in Stockholm, Sweden. (2002)

Participants at today’s EPA meeting were:

Liz Hitchcock, Government Affairs Director, Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families

Brent Kynoch, Managing Director, Environmental Information Association (EIA)

Richard Lemen, PhD, MSPH, Asst. U.S. Surgeon General (ret.)

Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH, American Public Health Association (APHA)

Christine Oliver, MD, MPH, MS, FACPM, Harvard Medical School

Linda Reinstein, President/CEO/Co-Founder, Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization

Key Facts

• Asbestos kills 15,000 Americans each year, yet has not been banned and imports continue
• Asbestos is still found in homes, schools, offices, and consumer products
• Americans cannot identify asbestos or manage the health risk
• USGS reported “The chloralkali industry, which uses asbestos to manufacture semipermeable diaphragms … likely accounted for 100% of asbestos consumption during 2016.”
• New CDC data indicates that mesothelioma death rates are increasing despite decreased consumption