Asbestos filters

Death in beer

Asbestos-laced beer from the 1970s is being blamed for a quadrupling of oesophagus (also spelled esophagus) cancer cases in the UK, according to a story which broke in Saturday’s Sun newspaper. The use of asbestos filters was also common in North America at the same time. Brewers at the time used asbestos to filter out…

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