The Consumer Product Safety Commission scared parents this week about wood playground equipment causing cancer in children. It’s another case of a make-believe health risk leading to very real costs ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 25, 2009) Although phased out from use in playground, deck and landscaping timbers, chromated-copper-arsenic (CCA), a hazardous wood preservative still allowed for use on ...

The George Wolf Elementary School playground that the community of Bath pulled together to build 13 years ago was closed Friday. The playground, which students collected pennies and parents organized ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate pressure-treated wood in playground equipment. CCA manufacturers and the ...

Summer’s end ushers kids home from summer camp and beach houses, and back into city parks. At the Diana Ross Playground in Central Park, children shout happily to one another as they chase each other ...

2003-02-08 04:00:00 PDT Washington-- Scientists at the Consumer Products Safety Commission said Friday that children playing on millions of outdoor wood playground sets nationwide faced an increased ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal regulators decided Tuesday against banning arsenic-treated lumber for playground equipment, saying most manufacturers no longer use the wood-protecting chemical that is ...

The government and the lumber industry are talking about halting the manufacture of arsenic-treated wood. Such a move makes sense. Bad press and lawsuits over the wood's health risks have taken a toll ...

If there’s one thing wood knows how to do, it’s rot. Expose lumber to the elements, and within as few as five years, sun, rain, termites and fungus can reduce it to pulp. That’s why builders were so ...

Children's exposure to arsenic and chromium from playground equipment constructed with chromated copper arsenate (CCA)-treated wood is a potential concern because of children's hand-to-mouth activity.