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Non-Profit Group "Environment & Human Health" Releases New Study Done At Yale Re Crumb Rubber Playgrounds, Finds Many Carcinogens; KIRO-TV (Seattle) Says "Crumb Rubber Fields to be Tested"


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(June 15, 2015, 8:15 a.m.) -- Reports continue to surface of concerns in various communities over crumb rubber (scraps of waste tires) used as part of artificial turf in some park and school recreational areas. LB's Parks & Rec Dept. is recommending at a Parks & Rec Commission meeting tonight (June 15) that a version of crumb rubber -- coated with some currently unspecified type of acrylic substance (to "encapsulate" rubber particles) -- be used on three soccer fields now (El Dorado Park West, Admiral Kidd and Seaside Parks) with additional uses citywide later.

The following recent developments are visible on a "Google" search this morning (June 15):

  • June 10, 2015: The non-profit group "Environment and Human Health," which says it is composed of physicians, public health professionals and policy experts and doesn't receive any funds from businesses or corporations, issued a release indicating that their study done at Yale University shows that "the analysis found 96 chemicals in the rubber tire infill used in synthetic turf and rubber tire mulch used as surfacing in toddler playgrounds. To view the group's release, click here.

  • June 12, 2015: KIRO-TV (Seattle) reported "Crumb Rubber Fields to be Tested for Possible Link to Cancer" at this link. VIDEO is below.

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To date there has been no study establishing a link between crumb rubber and cancer.

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As previously reported by LBREPORT.com, LB's Dept. of Parks & Recreation hired a firm which has installed crumb rubber and other synthetic infill and is a member of a synthetic turf advocacy group as a consultant to provide information on synthetic materials to replace natural grass soccer fields at three LB parks (El Dorado West, Admiral Kidd and Seaside parks.) with use citywide hereafter citywide. In a report provided to LB's Parks & Rec Commission, Parks & Rec staff indicates that based on information on alternatives provided by the consultant, the Department selected "coated rubber...due to its ability to coat the material and further protect against potential health impacts. Coated crumb rubber, which has an acrylic coating applied to the exterior of each granule, that encapsulates the rubber particles to mitigate any potential impacts..."

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