Wisconsin’s Glen Loyd is set to retire this month after a career in consumer advocacy that has lasted nearly 30 years.

Loyd will turn 70 in October. Over the course of his career, Loyd has fought for consumer rights. Loyd’s first big consumer rights story. While living in Chicago in the early 1970s, he was working at Today’s Heath magazine.

During his time in Chicago, Loyd recalls an instance involving construction workers, who were spraying the steel girders of skyscrapers with fireproofing chemicals. The overspray from the chemical wash was falling on pedestrians below. Loyd did some investigating, and found out that the toxic chemical wash included deadly asbestos.

In the seventies, the general public was fairly ill-advised about the long-term health consequences of asbestos exposure. It was not until the early eighties, when the federal government passed asbestos usage regulations that the public understood that asbestos exposure could lead to the eventual development of asbestosis, lung cancer, and malignant mesothelioma, all of which may be fatal.

For consumers, information about the potential dangers of asbestos exposure was often non-existent, as there were no warnings on asbestos product packaging. Large companies like W. R. Grace and James Hardie, an Australian-based manufacturer, often went to great lengths to hide the dangers of asbestos from their consumers.

Although he plans to retire, Loyd still will continue posting to his blog, and will appear as a guest on television and radio shows. Loyd’s policy is to speak unpaid on issues of consumer safety, and that policy will continue through his retirement.

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