Reassurance on health Effects of Asbestots Cement Roofs
Responding to public concerns arising from media coverage of the notorious Free State asbestos roof audit, Professor David Rees, Emeritus Professor of Public Health at Wits University, said there is no evidence that asbestos cement (AC) roofs are causing asbestos related diseases (ARDs). Rees, who recently retired from the National Institute for Occupational Health, was…