Consensus report

At a meeting held in Helsinki in January 1997, a group of 19 experts from 8 countries that do not produce asbestos formulated criteria for the diagnosis of asbestos-related diseases and their attribution to asbestos. Published later in the same year in the Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment and Health (1), the criteria for the attribution of lung cancer have met widespread acceptance and are consistent with approaches to attribution and...