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Crayons were around when you were a kid ... how have they harmed you? But thank you for taking the bait. There's not enough asbestos in crayons to harm anyone. You think crayon mfrs puts asbestos in crayons for some reason? No, you can find asbestos pretty much anywhere if your testing threshold is low enough. It's the name applied to six different naturally occurring silicate minerals. I can guarantee you there is asbestos in your house. And probably elsewhere on your property.

Did you ever wear or handle gloves containing talc when you worked the VA? Use talcum powder on your babies? Did you know talc often contains a small amount of asbestos silicates? The baby powder they cut cocaine with ... yep cocaine therefore will contain a little asbestos too. 50 of 58 counties in CA have naturally occurring asbestos rocks.

Asbestos from natural geologic deposits is known as "naturally occurring asbestos" (NOA). Health risks associated with exposure to NOA are not yet fully understood, and current US federal regulations do not address exposure from NOA. Many populated areas are in proximity to shallow, natural deposits which occur in 50 of 58 California counties and in 19 other US states. In one study, data was collected from 3,000 mesothelioma patients in California and 890 men with prostate cancer, a malignancy not known to be related to asbestos. The study found a correlation between the incidence of mesotheliomas and the distance a patient lived from known deposits of rock likely to include asbestos; the correlation was not present when the incidence of prostate cancer was compared with the same distances. The risk of mesothelioma declined by 6% for every 10 km (6.2 mi) that an individual had lived away from a likely asbestos source.[105]

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