The Consumer Products Safety Commission is reporting that wooden outdoor play equipment using lumber treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) increases the risk of bladder and lung cancer in children by somewhere between 2 and 100 in a million. The range is due to the uncertainty about how often children put their hands to their mouths and how long they play on the equipment. So the wooden swing-set I built for my daughter nine years ago turns out to be a biohazard site. Great.
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Backyard Superfund Site?
Feb 10
