Investigative Reporting Denmark

23/11/2022

The real figures of asbestos deaths

Deaths of asbestos has been underestimated for years. These figures count only occupational death of asbestos. Non-occupational deaths adds around 16.000 more deaths globally.

23/11/2022

Today we publish the result of a long investigation into , showing this substance is much more deadly compared to previous knowledge. Number of deaths is still growing year after year in Sweden, despite the country banned asbestos 40 years ago. The reason: asbestos still present in buildings all over and renovation is performed under bad circumstances.
The Swedish development is what all other countries can expect.
Adding to this there is no inventory of where the asbestos is and no real plan to get rid of it – in any of the nine investigated countries in Europe.
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Could asbestos be even more deadly than previously thought? “Clouds of dust were falling on us at every blow of the truncheon, but at that time we knew nothing about asbestos,” recalled Jesús Ropero Calcerrada, a 73-year-old man who was tasked with scraping asbestos from railway carriages durin...

16/02/2022

As of now, only France and Italy officially recognize Parkinson's disease to be linked to farm work. The condition is not on the list of occupational diseases upon which the European Union recommends Member States to act.
The official EU agency is not able to collect and share basic statistics on health at work. Part two of .

16/02/2022

Farm workers are not protected from pesticides.
Their exposure has been linked to serious and deadly illnesses, including Parkinson’s disease and blood cancers. Read part one of our investigation into .