“Johnson & Johnson has voluntarily recalled a single batch of its baby powder after US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulators found trace amounts of asbestos in the product. The company said 33,000 bottles of talcum powder will be recalled “out of an abundance of caution”.The recall comes amid thousands of lawsuits alleging the company […]

*”Three men from Harehills have been arrested after 2.7 tonnes of dangerous asbestos was dumped in Leeds. Police arrested the men after the piles of asbestos waste were found in Wetherby. The arrests came in partnership between Leeds Council and West Yorkshire Police. Why is asbestos dangerous? Asbestos still kills around 5000 workers each year, […]

“Charity Mesothelioma UK has urged education authorities to “take responsibility and rid our buildings of this cancer-causing substance”. A Freedom of Information request to Leeds City Council revealed that 95 state primary schools contain asbestos – 43 per cent of the area’s schools. Research by law firm Stephensons found that the potentially deadly material is […]

According to an article in The Guardian The death toll from asbestos exposure has reached crisis levels in Britain, the Guardian has learned, as people pay the price for “criminal failings by industry and government” made decades ago. Asbestos-related cancers can occur as many as 50 years after exposure and deaths are now thought to […]

A 14-year-old girl has become one of the youngest sufferers in the world to be diagnosed with an asbestos-related cancer. The young girl, from Devon, is understood to be one of only nine children in the world to suffer from mesothelioma after she was diagnosed in March 2018. Asbestos is a hidden killer and can […]