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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The crumb rubber in a lot of artificial turfs is nasty stuff -- if you ingest vast quantities of it. It's basically made from discarded tires.

So look at this way. Are you going to stop driving because there's a cancer risk from your tires? No. But you probably wouldn't want to EAT a tire.

So far, there's no science to back up a link between artificial turf and cancer. But you should probably:

A. Tell your kids to brush the rubber crumbs away.

B. Tell your kids not to swallow a bunch of rubber crumbs.

C. Get your kids to wash their hands between soccer practice and dinner.

(Which is all pretty much what you'd tell them if they were playing on dirt or goose poop, anyway.)[/quote]

It’s the dust, you moron. As the kids play the dust of those pellets and plastic grass gets kicked up and you breathe it in. The problem is not that people are eating the turf grass field elements. 
This is a hard thing to study as the cancer (or lung damage or deposits of materials in your brain or liver) would not happen immediately but 20+ years down the road. That doesn’t mean that your kids should be ingesting carcinogenic dust. [/quote]

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