Toxicity Scare Has Synthetic Turf Makers Scrambling to Clean Up Their Image

A synthetic turf toxicity scare has field owners concerned and manufacturers scrambling to clean up their image.

However, more advanced testing determined that the 10-year-old nylon field itself was the source of the lead - more specifically, lead chromate pigments used for colorfastness in the amount of around 4,000 milligrams per kilogram, a number that varied depending on the color of the turf fibers tested. Subsequent testing conducted in April and May by the NJDHSS detected the presence of lead in all 12 of the fields randomly selected around the state (as well as in samples of nylon products ordered online), with attention quickly focusing on two that, like the Ironbound field, were older and made of nylon, and showed similarly high lead levels. By June, those three fields and another New Jersey nylon field that had shown similar lead levels in a private test had been replaced with polyethylene surfaces. The 10 fields that had shown only trace levels of lead in NJDHSS tests were all made from this material.

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