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In a controversial article, The Great Asbestos Hysteria (Mail, February 23), we said that according to the Health and Safety Executive, the risks of white asbestos products are “negligible” and “possibly zero” in the case of breast cancer. lung.
The HSE assessments related to specific levels of exposure to white asbestos fibres, not white asbestos products, and found a risk from higher levels.
The article said that asbestos in UK schools is almost all white. According to the HSE, the more harmful brown asbestos is also frequently used in schools.
The writer was wrong to say that the HSE had been forced to withdraw a series of advertisements claiming that mesothelioma kills 4,500 people a year.
In fact, the advertisements were based on an estimate of 4,000 deaths from all asbestos-related diseases.