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Monday, June 23, 2008
Source: Business Wire
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) and The John McNamara Foundation have announced the formation of the Committee to Ban Asbestos in America (CBAA), an advocacy group dedicated to preventing asbestos exposure and eliminating asbestos-caused diseases. The CBAA, along with its constituent organizations, supports the asbestos ban that is currently being reviewed by the House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Environment & Hazardous Materials.
In the press release announcing the formation of the Committee, ADAO and CBAA chairperson Linda Rothstein is quoted as “We are calling on the U.S. Congress and the President to do the right thing and ban asbestos in America and fund critical medical programs. Doctors and scientists agree: asbestos is a carcinogen and that there is no safe level of exposure. Preventing asbestos exposure is the only way to eliminate asbestos caused diseases.”
The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) is an organization devoted to the victims of asbestos exposure and their families. ADAO’s goal is to raise public awareness about the dangers of asbestos exposure and they accomplish this through a number of activities, including product safety checking. The John McNamara Foundation is an organization that works to ban asbestos and provides support and assistance to mesothelioma victims.
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