Man receives award for raising awareness about asbestos in some art clay

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has honored a Connecticut man for his work in protecting kids from asbestos in art clay, said the Connecticut Business News Journal in May 2008.

The man, a supervisor of the state Department of Public Health's Asbestos Program, helped get suppliers to stop selling toy art clay in Connecticut that contains asbestos-containing talc.

He also got the Art & Creative Materials Institute to require member manufacturers to reformulate their products to remove asbestos, which has been linked to diseases like asbestosis, lung cancer and mesothelioma.

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