The essential
Asbestos is an insulation that has been used for years in our buildings: joints, pipes, corrugated sheets, etc.
In 1997, it was banned: its carcinogenic fibers cause serious pathologies.
The Health Insurance website specifies that pathologies “related to asbestos represent today the second most frequent category of occupational diseases, with 5,000 cases recognized each year”.
The National Association for the Defense of Asbestos Victims (Andeva), has just sent, as we reveal, a letter to the Ministry of Health expressing concern about a possible calling into question of the system for monitoring cases of asbestos. asbestos-specific cancer.
Because you can get sick almost 40 years after being exposed…
Frédéric Mouchon, our journalist in charge of the environment, will answer all your questions live this Monday from noon.
10:40
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What exactly is asbestos?
Can we still be exposed to it?
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