Asbestos found in trains imported from China

So we've had the Hep A blueberries. Now we have the Asbestos filled trains from China used for iron ore exports.

BOB NANVA, RAIL, TRAM AND BUS UNION: We had our maintenance workers repairing a number of diesel engines. They identified a lot of white dust amongst those engines and asked a question as to whether or not that dust was safe. 

BILL MUSK, PROF., CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSP., PERTH: I think there's been a breakdown in law enforcement and that's not good enough. 

MATT PEACOCK: The workers' concern was justified. White asbestos or chrysotile was found throughout the locomotives: insulation around the exhaust and muffler system, around coolant pipes and in the brake exhaust section near the roof of the driver's cabin. 

BOB NANVA: They were assured on numerous occasions that there was nothing to be alarmed about. But, on subsequent testing of that dust, they've identified asbestos. 

PETER TIGHE, CEO, ASBESTOS SAFETY & ERADICATION AGENCY: Well, it's another example, I think, of the lack of compliance in relation to certification from Asia and, more specifically, China: that asbestos free certification is really questionable out of those areas. 

MATT PEACOCK: Last month, at a cost of more than $1 million, the locomotives were taken from service. Most were quarantined here at SCT's centre at Adelaide's Penfield, where professional asbestos removalists in protective suits and masks have been stripping the asbestos out of the trains. 

The company's subsidiary, Specialised Bulk Rail (SBR), says its first priority has been the safety of its staff, some of whom it concedes may have been at "some risk" when the asbestos-containing insulation blankets were "damaged or ripped". 

BOB NANVA: These are maintenance workers that repair these trains day in, day out around and would have been exposed to these fibres in day, day out. more  

Would you like Asbestos with that free trade agreement?

I guess Asbestos Julie will be ecstatic.