• Here is an article by an trader showing pictures of old baseball gloves, and really old football helmets (think Red Grange helmets) lined with asbestos to provide padding.
• These are just two of the many uses of asbestos as a textile.
• Why, you might wonder, is an trader writing about asbestos.
• It's been well known for some time that asbestos litigation generated its own niche of shoppers, as is described here in an article from 2003.
• Investigators and lawyers also buy and test old products for the presence of asbestos.
• For example, in a case I was involved with, there was no clear source of asbestos , but the plaintiff had a form of cancer () usually but not always linked to inhalation of asbestos fibers (especially inhalation of asbestos fibers).
• Testing of old appliances proved that he had worked for a few years at an appliance production facility operated by a company that sold a line of products that included wires with asbestos fibers.

Source From : GlobalTort: Old Baseball Gloves and Football Helmets with Asbestos .

• Request you to ensure that Rashtrapati Bhavan be made asbestos free at the earliest & urge you to put an end to the use of the of all kinds of asbestos products that is being used and encountered daily, because none of the schools, offices, legislatures, courts, hospitals, automobiles, private and public buildings in our country are asbestos free in our country.
• This paves the way for the eventual complete ban on asbestos and its products.
• In case of asbestos, a carcinogen, India has no policy to discourage its use in textiles, building materials, insulation and brake linings in automobiles.
• Taking note of the fact that public concern, regulations and liabilities involved have ended the use of asbestos from the developed countries, delegates at a Round Table wondered, "why is it that the concern of the countries, which have banned asbestos not relevant to India?." Exposing workers to asbestos must be equated to murder and legal provisions must deal with it accordingly.
• White asbestos continues to be in use in India although other kinds such as blue and brown asbestos are banned.
• It is high time Government of India took note of ongoing asbestos exposures of citizens, consumers and workers and took immediate remedial measures.
• When the world is preparing and planning to get rid of all forms of asbestos, it makes us look stupid in India to be still importing it, we should devote our scarce resources to prevent the impending disaster by phasing it out as soon as we can.

Source From : BanAsbestosIndia: Make Rashtrapati Bhavan Asbestos Free