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Asbestos contamination of children's sand was a fluke discovery in an Australian lab (www.rnz.co.nz)
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This reminds me of the Ribena debacle, where a bunch of school kids stumbled onto the fact Ribena were lying massively about the amount of vitamin C in their product.

Also, why are we importing sand from China? We have sand at home.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I started to ask, "what's Ribena?" remembered it's 2025 and found out on Wikipedia.. But now that I've read it's available as a "squash," I have to ask, is that a British word for concentrate? (US juice concentrates are often frozen, but I'm guessing Ribena squash isn't.)

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

I'm honestly not sure what a squash is, I thought of the sport at first.

[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah it is/was sold as a liquid concentrate.

Pick whatever weird word ~~your locale uses~~ err ~~floats your boat~~ err dilutes your beverage ;-)

[–] SaneMartigan@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Blackcurrant cordial we'd call it in Australia.

[–] Dragonborn3810@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Squash is a drink, fruit flavoured and you add water to it. Like fruit flavoured cordial if you have that over there?