Is this suggesting that The Synthetic Turf Council is covering up the fact that they use lead in their products?

What the heck is going on? This is too bizarre...

In other news: There's a Synthetic Turf Council.

An industry group says everything is fine, so let's just move on. There's nothing to see here, and any suggestion to the contrary is "scare-mongering"

That's the typical conservative response to any suggestion that a consumer product or industial process may be less than benign from a health or environmental standpoint. Also typical is incomplete reporting of such instances. Take, for example, Mr. Poor's omission of the fact the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has taken the possibility of a lead threat seriously enough to launch its own investigation. It took a five-second Google search to uncover the following more-complete story from USA Today:

http://www.usatoday....

So, what, the kids are eating this stuff?? That's really the only way besides inhaling it (hmmmmm...) that you can get any sort of quantity into you. For all you scaredy cats out there, I've been in electronics for nearly 40 years. I have used rosin core solder (lead plus tin) for that amount of time. I have not gone crazy (except when reading this kind of garbage), I do not have all sorts of cancers, etc., etc., etc. And, neither do any of the thousands of technicians I have worked and associated with during my career. I am so tired of this whiny bull crap from a bunch of neurotic idiots running around looking for this next thing that'll kill them. A pox on all their houses.

"Health officials in New Jersey randomly tested synthetic turf fields across the state. Two of the fields had lead levels so high they closed them."

Based on what legal criteria did they close the fields. As far as I am aware, I've never heard of any lead standards for outdoor fields. And how would children ingest this lead to cause any potential problem?

Speaking of fishing, I guess that children will now have to be banned from that sport, because the weights that are commonly used are not just high in lead, they are 100% lead.

The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic. Let's get it back! Alan Keyes '08.

"ABC correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi said. 'It's everywhere, from stadiums to neighborhood soccer fields.'"

There's no artificial fields around here as far as I know.  But hey, I'm just an ignorant hick from Pennsylvania.  Maybe we'll get some of them fancy fields if we vote for Obama.

I used to listen to a talk radio guy in Minnesota who had a saying....

LIFE....is dangerous!

Better than Lead...

They should look into this one... Right here in North Carolina I know someone that built their house on top of an old Zircon mine. And I do mean on top. I used to go there and collect zircon crystals and was surprised that after a 2 year hiatus that someone had bought the property, bull dozed over the mine entrance and built a home dirctly over the site. As Zircon breaks down (over many years) it becomes radioactive.

Last year I went back to the site and actually talked to the homeowner. He has had 2 dogs die of some sort of unknown reasons. He and his wife, and his son, and his twin granddaughters all have one form or another of cancer, and cancer has never been active in his, or his wifes family.

Why is it the media always misses the big stories? Lead in the astro-turf, so what? 

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