A New Zealand newspaper has quoted a local medical officer who said there was no danger in drinking small quantities of asbestos fibres from water pipes made from asbestos.
The same medical officer said that it was the inhalation of asbestos that could cause asbestos conditions, such as mesothelioma.
There have been compensation cases in Australia when a person who cut asbestos cement pipes inhaled asbestos, contributing to that persons condition of mesothelioma.
