The Nation - News from June 27, 1986

The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted in Washington to require warning labels on products containing asbestos, and to support an Environmental Protection Agency ban on all uses of asbestos. The substance, which has been found to cause respiratory cancer, was once widely used in construction and as a fire retardant. The commission said it would issue a warning that asbestos is still found in many common products, such as stove pads and gaskets, iron rests, some papers and millboards, laboratory and artists’ supplies, furnace cement and duct seals.