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Asbestos contamination of children's sand was a fluke discovery in an Australian lab (www.rnz.co.nz)
submitted 1 month ago by Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz to c/newzealand@lemmy.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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[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

McAllister said this led to NZ authorities alerting Australian regulators, who compelled the Brisbane lab - which had been bound by client confidentiality - to share the positive asbestos tests.

Wait, the lab found there was asbestos in a common children's product, but they didn't tell authorities because they had a contract to hide a major public health issue?

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

The same reasons as always. Cheap labour and economy of scale.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, I have no idea how the lab keeping quiet about that was legal. Perhaps it wasn't.