Refused to issue a recall because they aren’t required to by EU law anymore. Nice.
pantone13-0752 on
This is following the recall of asbestos-continated children’s play sand in Australia and New Zealand in the autumn. Hobbycraft really should have checked that their products were clear after that.
A_Pointy_Rock on
>Hobbycraft said that no UK authority had warned of a risk and that there was no evidence of harm to customers.
I expect they’ll check again in around 40 years then considering how long asbestosis takes to set in…
shortymcsteve on
> All the affected products are manufactured in China, where items containing less than 5% of asbestos can be labelled asbestos-free. UK law says that there is no safe limit for exposure to the mineral.
Sorry, what? Free means 0%, not 4.9%. This is absolutely crazy.
HeartyBeast on
You know what is missing from this news article- any indication of how many asbestos fibres were found. Literally one or two fibres is fine, in my opinion.
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Refused to issue a recall because they aren’t required to by EU law anymore. Nice.
This is following the recall of asbestos-continated children’s play sand in Australia and New Zealand in the autumn. Hobbycraft really should have checked that their products were clear after that.
>Hobbycraft said that no UK authority had warned of a risk and that there was no evidence of harm to customers.
I expect they’ll check again in around 40 years then considering how long asbestosis takes to set in…
> All the affected products are manufactured in China, where items containing less than 5% of asbestos can be labelled asbestos-free. UK law says that there is no safe limit for exposure to the mineral.
Sorry, what? Free means 0%, not 4.9%. This is absolutely crazy.
You know what is missing from this news article- any indication of how many asbestos fibres were found. Literally one or two fibres is fine, in my opinion.
I didn’t know Johnson and Johnson made play sand.
>!Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder [https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/](https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/johnsonandjohnson-cancer/)!<
An actual picture of the product would be super helpful!!!