March 19, 2008, Albuquerque, NM - The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) has announced that executive director Linda Reinstein will keynote the 25th Anniversary and Exposition of the Environmental Information Association.

Reinstein, who is co-founder of ADAO as well as its executive director, will speak on the dangers of asbestos and its effects on communities. She will also discuss product testing that discovered asbestos in consumer products and consumer toys.

Several thousand people each year are diagnosed with mesothelioma and asbestosis, two diseases that occur only as a result of asbestos exposure. An estimated 100,000 Americans will die of an asbestos-related disease during the next decade. Both diseases respond to treatment in a very limited way, and are incurable.

The Environmental Information Association (EIA) has been at the forefront of the environmental industry for 25 years, collecting and disseminating information about environmental health and safety issues that are relevant to industrial sites, buildings, and other facility operations.

ADAO is a non-profit volunteer-run organization that is dedicated to serving as a voice for the victims and families who have been affected by asbestos diseases. The organization advocates a complete ban on asbestos products and encourages research to improve prognosis and treatment for people with asbestos-related diseases.

Linda Reinstein says she is “honored” to speak at the EIA Anniversary conference. The title of her speech is “Turning Anger to Action”, and Reinstein notes that while people are “angry that…loved ones are still being exposed to deadly asbestos fibers, we realize that we can take a stand and prevent it from harming our loved ones in the future.” She adds that victims of asbestos and their loved ones “will fight this battle until the end, and together we will get this fatal substance banned from our nation forever.”

Reinstein, of Redondo Beach, California, has witnessed the effects of asbestos-related diseases first-hand. Her husband Alan, the former president of ADAO, died from mesothelioma in 2006 after being diagnosed in 2003 at the age of 63. Alan Reinstein was exposed to asbestos more than fifty years prior to his diagnosis with the cancer.

Linda Reinstein will speak at the EIA 25th Anniversary Conference and Exposition on Wednesday, March 19. Her keynote speech will be given in the Sandia Ballroom V at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

The following week, on Saturday March 29, the ADAO will host its 4th annual Asbestos Awareness Day Conference. The ADAO host and organize the conference, which will be attended by executive director Linda Reinstein as well as asbestos disease experts from around the world. The ADAO conference will be held at the Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, Michigan, between 8am and 5.30pm.

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