The largest study on factory contamination and malignant tumors has been published. The study, written by five researchers at the National Epidemiology Center in Madrid, recalls "the large quantities of toxic substances that have been released indiscriminately for many years" and calls for the reduction of carcinogenic emissions in industry to be "unavoidable".

Fernando García Benavides, researcher at CISAL-UPF, applauds the new work, but warns that it does not allow visualizing the situation of the workers of the factories. In their view, they are forgotten. "The scarcity of labor-related cancers recognized by Social Security in Spain is tremendous. If France or Germany recognizes between 5% and 10% of the demands, in Spain there is barely 0.01%, "he laments.

The certification of the labor origin of a tumor implies greater subsidies and pensions. In February of this year, a judge forced the company Uralita to compensate with 342,142 euros to an ex-worker that underwent cancer of lung by exposure to asbestos. "No one has to put his life at risk for going to work," trencher García Benavides, ex-president of the Spanish Society of Epidemiology.

(See article published. El País 19/10/2017)