The health ministry on Friday published the names of 2,167 out of the 2,514 businesses with records of having handled asbestos at the workplace, which is known to cause a range of health problems, notably a rare form of cancer called mesothelioma. The 2,514 businesses each had among their current or former employees at least one person eligible to receive compensation as a victim of a labor accident during two years through March 2007. They also included businesses connected to recipients of official benefits for bereaved families of victims of asbestos-linked diseases during fiscal 2006 that ended in March 2007.