The Health and Safety Executive have recently ordered two unnamed UK Companies to stop supplying asbestos based gauze mats to schools in Northern Ireland. The mats were being used as heat shields in laboratories when pupils were using Bunsen burners.

The Health and Safety Executive in the UK and Northern Ireland are carrying out ongoing investigations to determine the effects and issues that may have arisen as a result of the use of these mats.

As a result, we received two Bunsen Burner Gauze Mats to be analysed in our laboratory.

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