Meanwhile there’s those of us in the US

The term originally referred to fruit that was spoiled or rotten, as well as to plants and individuals that appeared to be in poor health.[1]

Very fitting

Most lab tops today are not asbestos based. There’s plenty of 40 plus year old ones still around that are and as long as you don’t break them they’re perfectly fine. But newer tops are all either epoxy or phenolic resin based.

According to this article it won’t go into effect until next year. So it shouldn’t impact this case but I could see it misused as retribution https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/05/georgia-brian-kemp-bill-remove-local-prosecutors