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Warning! Your Wooden Deck and Your Child's Swingset may be Highly Toxic!

  • February 16, 2004

After 70 years of production, the manufacture of pressure-treated (CCA) wood for residential use has ended in the United States. It turns out that the arsenic in pressure-treated wood rubs off on the hands of those who touch it. When those who touch it are children, their risk of developing lung and bladder cancer are significantly raised. Young children at play put their hands in their mouth an average of 16 times an hour; CCA is 22 percent pure arsenic by weight, and arsenic is a known...
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