Elle’s twins played with asbestos-contaminated coloured sand for a year. Why wasn’t she warned of its danger?

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When Elle Chrisp learned her twins were playing with coloured sand from Kmart that could be contaminated with asbestos, she thought she had the problem sorted. “When the recall happened I read the notice, saw the words ‘low risk’, and followed the instructions to double-bag the sand so it was ready to be chucked out,” Chrisp tells the Guardian from her home in Christchurch, New Zealand. “I was like, ‘This is OK, this isn’t scary’, we’ll just do as it says, bag it up, and throw it out.’” Eight months later, Chrisp and her husband, Dave Dingwall, were shocked to learn that when they and thousands of other consumers were…

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