In the Race
Now, here, you see, it takes all the blogging I can do to keep in the same place.
If I want to get somewhere else, I must blog twice as fast as that!
You see, I'm in
the Red Queen's Race...
No Health Risk From Lead In Artificial Turf? Right...
By Janet Evans
Friday, Aug 1 2008, 11:45 AM
Okay, so we’re really supposed to believe the U.S. government on this one? Lead…even small amounts of it are “safe” for small children? It’s dust that’s being emitted from the artificial turf. That means it is being breathed in by the kids - who are closer to the ground.
"Back in April, the New Jersey Department of Health put in a request that the agency [The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission] take a closer look at artificial turf fields.
This came after they found that many of the older fields began to emit levels of lead which they believed could have posed a health risk.
The commission followed up by studying the artificial fields and the amount of lead."
No…no, thank you. If I am the parent of small children, I will not let them play on artificial turf. Let the guinea pigs they use for testing purposes be the real thing. After all, we all know how the results of these so-called studies end up flip-flopping down the road. And I’m sure you would rather have a healthy child who doesn’t have any disabilities due to lead poisoning rather than a law suit, right?
I thought so.
Lead In Artifical Turf Posed No Health Risk
moneytimes
