Deaths from 'industrial disease' reaching peak after widespread use between 1950s and 70s The death toll from asbestos exposure has reached crisis levels in Britain, the Guardian has learned, as people pay the price for "criminal failings by industry and government" made decades ago. Asbestos-related cancers can occur as many as 50 years after exposure and deaths are now thought to be reaching their peak, years after the widespread industrial use of the carcinogen between the 1950s and 70s.
Deaths from 'industrial disease' reaching peak after widespread use between 1950s and 70s The death toll from asbestos exposure has reached crisis levels in Britain, the Guardian has learned, as people pay the price for "criminal failings by industry and government" made decades ago. Asbestos-related cancers can occur as many as 50 years after exposure and deaths are now thought to be reaching their peak, years after the widespread industrial use of the carcinogen between the 1950s and 70s.
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