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• Asbestos Services - The most comprehensive UK asbestos site available. Includes current asbestos news from around the world. Updated daily.

• Asbestos Surveys - Asbestos surveys conducted quickly and efficiently throughout the greater Midlands region. Call 07800 790427 for immediate attention.
• Asbestos Testing - UK independent asbestos testing service using UKAS approved labs. Emergency sampling undertaken.
• AsbestosNews.com - US based asbestos law resources and asbestos related information
• Asbestos Consultants to the Environment - Accredited asbestos testing laboratory providing asbestos analysis services throughout the UK.
• Wrigley Fibres - Somerset, UK. Technical Data for precision cut fibres and flocks. Polypropylene, aramid, cotton, PAN. Used for ceramics, asbestos replacement. Also glass microbeads used as a filler for thermoplastics
  Davies Environmental (UK) Ltd. - Specialist asbestos removal contractors based in Coventry, UK.
• Airborne Environmental Consultants (AEC) Ltd - Environmental monitoring, analysis and advisory services; asbestos and occupational safety based in Salford. Profile, services and employment opportunities.
• LAR, Ltd. (UK) - Asbestos removal contractor, located in Stockport.
• Vector Environmental (UK) - Asbestos removal and building surveys, based in Birmingham.
• Asbestos Consultants to the Environment - UK consultants specializing in asbestos-related problems for both the public and private sectors.
• Active Asbestos Management Ltd - UK company providing asbestos surveys, training and consultancy.
• Cavendish Laboratories Ltd. - Asbestos and water quality testing laboratory in the UK offering on site monitoring and sampling for the control and removal of asbestos.
• Asteck Ltd. - UK and French company offering surveys, management, removal and treatment of asbestos and lead based products.
• Asbestostrip Innovations - UK company using injection delivery for controlled wetting of asbestos-containing materials.
• James Gill (Leeds) Ltd - Asbestos removal, demolition, contaminated land clearance, and haulage company, in Leeds, UK. 
• West Coast Thermal contractors - Asbestos survey, disposal and thermal insulation service specialists in Cumbria, UK.
   

• Asbestos Fact Sheets from WorkSafe - Information about asbestos exposure, occupational safety, mesothelioma and asbestosis, asbestos in the home and school, indoor air quality, and organizing around these issues.
• ATSDR Statement on Asbestos - Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry Public Health Statement on Asbestos.
• British Asbestos Newsletter - Information from around the world about asbestos-related topics.
• Deidre VanGerven's Asbestos Awareness Site - In memory of Mr. Van Gerven who died from mesothelioma, a cancer caused by asbestos. Information about asbestos exposure and health hazards.
• EPA Asbestos Home Page - Information from the Environmental Protection Agency about asbestos hazards, regulations, publications and resources.
• International Ban Asbestos Secretariat (IBAS) - International organization working to stop the use of asbestos, and minimize hazards from asbestos products that have been previously installed.
• The 10 Most Commonly Asked Questions about Asbestos - From the Oklahoma Department of Labor.
• NYCOSH Asbestos Information - Extensive and annotated index of information about the occupational health hazard of exposure to asbestos.
• OSHA Asbestos Page - Information and additional links about recognition, evaluation and control of asbestos hazards.

  Asbestos Health Related Sites

• Asbestos Fibers - Pathology - Pathology of ferruginous bodies around asbestos fibers lodged in the lung.
• Asbestosis and dust diseases - Information about asbestosis, silicosis and other dust diseases, from Canadian Lung Association.
• Asbestosis Disease - Discussion by doctors at Creighton University School of Medicine about asbestosis, symptoms, prognosis, and symptomatic treatment.
• Asbestosis Hub - Information and links to information and resources related to asbestosis. Includes articles about clinical trials and treatment, images and slides, directories, statistics and news.
• Asbestosis Mortality Statistics - Information from the CDC about mortality rates from asbestosis in the US in 1996.
• Diagnosis of Diffuse Lung Disease: Asbestosis - Physician's guide to diagnosis, from the University of Iowa.
• Questions and Answers About Asbestos Exposure - Information from the National Cancer Institute about asbestos exposure and diseases like asbestosis.
• Questions and Answers About Asbestos - Information about asbestos exposure and diseases from the National Cancer Institute.
• Ridings Asbestos Support & Awareness Group (UK) - Advice and support for people in UK with asbestos-related diseases.
• West Yorkshire Asbestos Action Group (UK) - Information about asbestos and asbestos-related diseases.
• The White Lung Association - Organization for people with asbestos-related diseases; information about diseases and political developments.