{"id":151130,"date":"2025-11-24T12:14:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151130\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T12:14:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T12:14:08","slug":"coloured-sand-products-test-positive-for-asbestos-contamination-as-more-products-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/151130\/","title":{"rendered":"Coloured sand products test positive for asbestos contamination as more products recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NZ Herald<\/p>\n<p>24 Nov, 2025 04:18 AMQuick Read<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.Subscribe now<\/p>\n<p>\u200c<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\" class=\"flex cursor-pointer items-center gap-1.5 text-black\" data-test-ui=\"social-link--bookmark-above\" aria-label=\"bookmark\" id=\"social-link--bookmark-above\">Save<\/a>Share this articleCopy LinkEmailFacebookTwitter\/XLinkedInReddit<\/p>\n<p data-test-ui=\"figure__caption\"> Coloured sand products sold by Kmart NZ have tested positive for tremolite asbestos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">More coloured sand products have been recalled after testing positive for asbestos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) released a statement today, recalling Rainbow Sand Art Toy and Craft Sand 380g.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\n         The recall has been issued after proactive testing was done on both products, with both testing positive<br \/>\n         for asbestos.\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cThe testing confirms that several samples have returned positive results for asbestos contamination,\u201d says Ian Caplin, MBIE Product Safety Spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p class=\"kWCtudddaMfW\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cWe are working closely with suppliers, and those linked to positive test results have initiated product recalls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NZ Herald 24 Nov, 2025 04:18 AMQuick Read Subscribe to listenAccess to Herald Premium articles require a Premium&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[74,806,3596,1558,87488,40176,2082,305,42,130,43,2989,3383,23840,2751,765,11408,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-151130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-after","tag-as","tag-asbestos","tag-been","tag-coloured","tag-contamination","tag-for","tag-have","tag-headlines","tag-more","tag-news","tag-positive","tag-products","tag-recalled","tag-sand","tag-test","tag-testing","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}