wrote:
Nonsense from start to finish.

Ah, kicking off with a sweeping statement in true Usenet (yes, I know
uk.* isn't usenet) style :-)

Get it straight from the researchers:
www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk
http://www.asbestoswatchdog.co.uk/ACM.pdf
The brief summary: white asbestos is perfectly safe,

Suggest you read the link you posted more thoroughly:

"All can be dangerous, but blue and brown asbestos are known to be more
dangerous than white. "

Which rather suggests it's far from "perfectly safe".

However, if it's well contained there's no reason why it can be left in
place "perfectly safely". Nothing in my original post contradicts that
statement...

nearly all
asbestos is white. but if its blue or brown asbestos, theyre very
different substances to white, and not at all safe. Blue and brown are
easy to spot, theyre blue and brown respectively!

The fibres may be, but the material they are contained in may not appear
blue or brown.

Jim