Artificial Turf: Contested Terrains for Precautionary Public Health with Particular Reference to Europe?

ABSTRACT: Millions of adults, children and teenagers use artificial sports pitches and playgrounds globally. Pitches are artificial grass and bases may be made up of crumb rubber from recycled tires or new rubber and sand. Player injury on pitches was a major concern. Now, debates about health focus on possible exposure and uptake of chemicals within pitch and base materials. Research has looked at potential risks to users from hazardous substances such as metals, volatile organic compounds, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons including benzo (a) (e) pyrenes and phthalates: some are carcinogens and others may be endocrine disruptors and have developmental reproductive effects. Small environmental monitoring and modelling studies, often with significant data gaps about exposure, range of substances moni

SUBMITTER: Watterson A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5615587 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature