Canada Backs International Ban on Chrysotile Asbestos

摘要

Canada is supporting a proposal to add chrysotile asbestos to the list of banned substances under the international Rotterdam Convention, the government said. Canada had previously announced plans to prohibit asbestos and products containing it domestically by 2018, but said it would advocate listing of chrysotile asbestos-which some consider the least dangerous form of asbestos-as a banned substance under the international convention meetings that began April 24 in Geneva, Switzerland.