[Trend of the asbestos related diseases mortality in workers of a company in the province Cremona which manufactured asbestos products]. / Andamento delle patologie e della mortalità asbesto correlate in lavoratori di un'azienda della provincia di Cremona che produceva manufatti in amianto.

The study analyzes the trend of asbestos-related diseases and mortality in workers of a company in the province of Cremona which manufactured asbestos products. It is confirmed that the exposure to a high concentration of asbestos fibers (estimated to more than 20 fibers/cc) strictly correlates with the onset of pathologies from asbestos. In the studied population were found 19 cases of neoplastic diseases (12 mesotheliomas and 7 bronchopulmonary carcinomas). This figure, compared to the company working population, which over the years has been an average of 80 units, while not enabling to calculate an incidence rate due to the lack of reliable data on population, is indicative of a very significant cause-effect relationship since these are neoplastic diseases that can still arise. So it is necessary to continue the health monitoring of formerly exposed workers and appropriate to try to extend it to all workers of the asbestos compartment.

[Exposure to asbestos dust in agricultural environment. Some significant exposure forms documented by the Hospital Unit of Occupational Medicine of Hospital Institute of Cremona]. / Esposizione a polvere d'asbesti in ambienti agricoli. Alcune significative modalità espositive documentate dalla UOOML (Unità Operativa Ospedaliera di Medicina del Lavoro) degli istituti Ospitalieri di Cremona.

Although it is difficult to document the exposition to asbestos in the agricultural workers, mesotelioma has however been noticed in the rural environment that may seem to have low risk because of its nature. This work describes the systematic diffusion of asbestos dust in the rural environment near Cremona due to the activity of "non-agricultural" workers who have fallen ill with mesothelioma. The patient described their work in details to the occupational medical doctor underlining the circumstances and the ways asbestos dust has been diffused in the rural environment. These ways were carefully analysed by the occupational medical doctor. They explain the onset of the mesothelioma in patients and they prove a systematic and long contamination of the involved rural areas. The described diffusion of dust has probably provoked a noteworthy exposure to the agricultural workers. At the moment there aren't full-blown asbestos-linked pathology but these workers are potentially at risk of getting them. So it has an importance both on individual and global level for the rural area near Cremona.