<P> Amphiboles including amosite ( brown asbestos ) and crocidolite ( blue asbestos ) were formerly used in many products until the early 1980s . Tremolite asbestos constituted a contaminant of many if not all naturally occurring chrysotile deposits . The use of all types of asbestos in the amphibole group was banned in much of the Western world by the mid-1980s , and in Japan by 1995 . Some products that included amphibole types of asbestos included the following : </P>
<P> Amphiboles including amosite ( brown asbestos ) and crocidolite ( blue asbestos ) were formerly used in many products until the early 1980s . Tremolite asbestos constituted a contaminant of many if not all naturally occurring chrysotile deposits . The use of all types of asbestos in the amphibole group was banned in much of the Western world by the mid-1980s , and in Japan by 1995 . Some products that included amphibole types of asbestos included the following : </P>
the types of asbestos known as ' blue ' and ' brown ' asbestos were banned in the uk in what year
the types of asbestos known as ' blue ' and ' brown ' asbestos were banned in the uk in what year
mid-1980s
mid-1980s