Consumer Products Safety Commission Lead Study

Lead has been mentioned by some critics as a risk associated with turf fields.  Some folks are pointing to a YouTube video of a 2008 ABC news story in support of this claim.  Importantly, the 2008 ABC new report references a pending U.S Consumer Products Safety Commission Study, but unfortunately the short piece on YouTube does not discuss the actual results of that study.

Those results can be found here.  Specifically, the CPSC concluded that "young children are not at risk from exposure to lead in these fields."

Also, as mentioned during the presentation to the Commissioners on June 25, the turf companies that have submitted bids for Middle/Wildcat all use lead free products.