Early in January, 2005, the Egyptian Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry prohibited the import and manufacture of all types of asbestos and asbestos materials; during the phase-out period, the fulfilment of asbestos contracts will be permitted but only under the strict supervision of the Industrial Control Authority.
The decision to ban asbestos is the culmination of a sustained campaign by workers at an asbestos factory owned by the Egyptian-Spanish ORA-Egypt Company who protested that high levels of occupational asbestos exposure had led to numerous cases of cancer and asbestosis amongst the workforce.
(Source, Lauria Kazan, IBAS).

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