The legislature intends to study on artificial turf
Legislators call for greater efforts to learn from studies to determine if the artificial turf in some football fields and playgrounds in Connecticut is dangerous.
Congress Woman Rosa DeLauro, D-3. District, and Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said Monday on the theme of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station in New Haven.
In a press conference Monday, they said a study provided by the Federal Consumer Product Safety Commission on lead in lawns dye is not enough. They want the Environmental Protection Agency, to study broader view of the potentially carcinogenic chemicals in lawns.
In a first study of the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station published last year, experts found that more research is needed to identify if there is a risk and, if so, how big it is.
“The ground rubber is an important issue and must be taken a look,” Nancy Municipal Environment and Human Health Inc. said.
“We do not know and we must discover,” said DeLauro. “If we are not yet certain lawn full effect, we can not be sure these efforts.”
DeLauro and Blumenthal, send a letter to the EPO Monday at the request of the study.
Activists said the agency should also consider possible alternatives to lawn to ensure their safety.
Connecticut 70 in the field of synthesis and many others are planned.
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