Environmental asbestos pollution — Situation in Poland
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Environmental asbestos pollution -- situation in Poland.
OBJECTIVES Environmental exposure of the general population to asbestos in Poland is mainly due to degradation of very popular asbestos-cement products and the resultant release of the elementary asbestos fibres into the ambient air. Assessments of environmental pollution by asbestos were based on the volume of the raw material used, amount of manufactured asbestos products, and measuring the c...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1896-494X
DOI: 10.2478/s13382-012-0003-0