ASBESTOS EXPERT ACCUSES JAPAN OF PUSHING FAULTY ASBESTOS TEST
December 1st, 2010
BY JULIAN RYALL
JAPAN is being accused of trying to write its own official asbestos testing system into an international standard, because it knows it does not work and so will get its government off the hook for asbestos exposure cases.
Kevin Carroll, president of EFA Laboratories, Ltd., a leading company providingasbestos analyses and analytical consultation services in Japan, claims the Japanese delegation to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is hypocritically pressing for writing Japan Industrial Standards' (JIS) X-ray ...
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