Invited editorial: unfinished business: the asbestos textiles mystery

摘要

It would be native to hope, let alone suggest, that in consequence of the recent papers published in Annals on the Quebec chrysotile cohort-the most recent in this issue-that peace may now break out between the warring factions of 'chrysophiles' and 'chrysophobes' (see McDonald and McDonald, 1997). There are encouraging signs, nevertheless, that the distance between the two camps is less than it used to be; it now seems fairly widely accepted that the car- cinogenicity of the amphiboles, crosidolite in particu- lar, is appreciably greater than of chrysotile and that contamination of the latter by fibrous tremolite may well have a disproportionate effect.