Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Toxic playgrounds

Toxic playgrounds
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49960/title/Toxic_playgrounds

"No kid should ever play in arsenic. Especially at school. Yet many probably do, according to findings of a study presented today.  Howard Mielke of Tulane University's Center for Bioenvironmental Research and his colleagues were concerned about risks to children posed by old-style pressure treated wood, the type that has been infused with a chromated-copper-arsenic concoction to limit deterioration from rot and insects. This town is a veritable termite capital, so it made a reasonable place to look for treated wood."

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