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Asbestos

By Daily Mail Reporter
Updated: 19:15 EST, 23 September 2010

In a controversial article, The Great Asbestos Hysteria (Mail, February 23), we said that according to the Health and Safety Executive, the risks from white asbestos products are ‘ insignificant’, and ‘arguably zero’ in the case of lung cancer.

The HSE assessments related to specific levels of exposure to white asbestos fibres, not white asbestos products, and found a risk from higher levels.

The article said that asbestos in UK schools is almost all white. According to the HSE, the more harmful brown…