Showing posts with label lead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lead. Show all posts

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Thursday, February 19, 2009

Lead wipes

I just read about wipes that could actually remove lead from the skin. One use mentioned was by battery workers - very dirty industry. Great idea!

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Guerilla Lead Testing

Wow! I knew about the guns that can tell the types of metals, they are around $25,000 each. My former work was thinking about buying one since when you are buying scrap, it's often hard to tell what you are buying to it's too late. Now, some consumer watch dog organizations have bought these guns and are using them to test for lead.

Guerrilla Toy Testers Take Aim at Lead from the WSJ

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Lead in Artificial Turf

Jerry Brown, who I still have a wonderful coffee cup from his previous time as Governor, Brown is Green, has a suite against 3 artificial turn companies for having lead in their grass. And what is very worrisome is many schools are adding this. And as the grass gets older more lead dust comes out, and it's easy to get into the mouth. Lead is not good...

Turf war: California sues artificial-grass makers over lead content from the LA Times.