No. Why is that . Theres no safe level of asbestos period. Its a carcinogen. Its a type one carcinogen and there should be no exposure. Just this past year, johnson and johnson ceo was asked whether asbestos is safe. He stated quote, i would agree that asbestos is considered unsafe. Im not an expert geologist or safety expert in that area but we would say yeah, its not safe. On october 18th, the fda announced it detected asbestos in j and j talcum powder. Whats the significance of this . To this day theyre finding asbestos when they go off the shelf. Its putting thousands, if not millions of people at risk in the future. Dr. Longo. Thats correct. Those rulesults verify our resus of finding asbestos in the products in the chinese mind chr mine which is the mine being used today. You tested historical samples. Yes. From what decade . From the 40s up to the 2000s as well as the current johnson and johnson products. What did you find . Overall, 65 of all the samples we tested were positive
Dr. Moline, is there any safe level of asbestos in consumer talcbased products . No. And why is that . Theres no safe level of asbestos period. Its a carcinogen. Its a type 1 carcinogen and there should be no exposure. Dr. Longo, both the fda and the epa agree that there is no safe or acceptable level of asbestos for human exposure, correct . That is correct. In fact, just this past year, Johnson Johnsons ceo was asked in a deposition whether asbestos is safe. He stated, quote, i would agree that asbestos is considered unsafe. Im not an expert geologist or safety expert in that particular area. But generally speaking, we would say, yeah, asbestos is not safe. On october 18th, the fda announced it had detected asbestos in j js talcum powder. Dr. Moline, what is the significance of this announcement . That to this day, theyre finding asbestos when they go off the shelf. In talcum powder. And its putting thousands, if not millions, of people at risk in the future. Dr. Longo . That is corr
Had on aljazeera calls for more protests as tension remains high in haiti and demands for the president to step down go on and serve and taking motherhood in her stride the jamaican whos dast to a world title 13 months after giving birth to her 1st child. How i once again live whether looking lost a quiet across a good part of the middle east little bits and pieces of cloud into southern areas of iran tending to fade away i think a cloud there up towards the caspian sea up towards still gerami yeah i can see a little bit of wet weather just coming through here for most of this got to stay settled in sunny 28 celsius there in the beirut were looking at some whats a weather and some wintry weather over towards the hinterlands up towards azerbaijan his back is down as well but even that ship clear away as we go on into wednesday central areas still for help 43 celsius there for baghdad and 40 in kuwait city and well see similar temperatures across iraq peninsula of course here in doha rou
To walk long distances in search of supplies in the mountain if you do and i have a wife and children and i cant find water ive got 5 dollars to buy water but i dont know where to find it with tensions still high the government continues to call for a National Dialogue to. Violence is not the best way to make your voice heard theres a major impact on the countrys economy especially if it means haiti is locked down not unwilling to negotiate opposition leaders have once again called for mass demonstrations. There was a lot. Over the weekend with the opposition calling on some of the more militants its of demonstrators to use up on the protests to give people an opportunity to leave their homes to go out to the markets to fill up their vehicles with. To go out look for water and all these lies but the opposition had said already that he wanted the protests started again on monday and thats exactly what groups of protesters meeting up early is higher urgently we can confirm that at least
Workshop we listen im supposed to explain apologize for someone its also terrorizing we meet with global newsmakers and talk about the stories that matter does iraq. After months of protests fears of more violence in haiti demonstrators stepped up their demands for the president to resign so whats fueling beyond race and how will the government respond to people speeding things this is inside story the hour we go and welcome to the program. For months now people in haiti have protested in sometimes violent demonstrations that appear to be getting worse a deepening economic crisis and growing fuel and Food Shortages have sent people to the streets there demanding the resignation of president who has so far rejected that call and frequent natural disasters have made things worse for millions of haitians hurricanes that destroy homes and Food Production and severe droughts that dry up the countrys Water Resources but lets take a look at the political crisis which began in july last year w