Posted on 02/04/04
Ottawa on trail of asbestos in Indian homes
OTTAWA -- The federal government has begun combing through tens of thousands of construction records on Canadian Indian reserves to identify homes containing an asbestos-contaminated insulation linked to cancer.The exhaustive review was announced yesterday as Health Canada and Indian and Northern Affairs posted guidelines on their websites on how to deal with the substance, known as vermiculite. Experts estimate there could be hundreds of thousands of homes across the country that contain the insulation, which was imported to Canada from a U.S. producer until 1990.
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