Subject	Predicate	Object
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		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	vZqtU0F5
	answer has answering person	Michael Penning
	answer text	<p>The Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) Regulation prohibits the importation, manufacture and supply of asbestos fibres, or articles containing asbestos fibres. So, selling or supplying gas masks that contain asbestos is a breach of the REACH Regulation. However, there are some types of gas mask which do not contain asbestos and others which have had asbestos containing elements removed, and these can be sold online.</p><p>The Health and Safety Executive is currently evaluating whether asbestos is present in a range of gas masks and will in due course inform online retailers of the scale of the problem and work with them to restrict the sale of those known to contain asbestos.</p>
	answer given date	2013-11-25
	answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
	written answer has answering body	Department for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has written answer	DeTx4Htw
Department for Work and Pensions	answering body has answer	DeTx4Htw
vZqtU0F5	question has answer	DeTx4Htw
Michael Penning	answering person has answer	DeTx4Htw