Artificial football pitches suggested link to health problem

[Norah]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3447336/My-teenage-son-s-cancer-caused-artificial-football-pitches-says-former-NHS-boss-launches-campaign-halt-turf-s-use-fears-contain-dangerous-chemicals.html

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Feb 16, 2016 20:12:56 GMT Norah said:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3447336/My-teenage-son-s-cancer-caused-artificial-football-pitches-says-former-NHS-boss-launches-campaign-halt-turf-s-use-fears-contain-dangerous-chemicals.html

Makes sense to me...

Posted June, 2015
From what I have seen the plastic pitches are a nightmare, and that is why the players are suing. It is not just the Moncton pitch, it is the same pitch at all venues. Rubber bits flying everywhere, imagine trying to breath during a slide tackle! Your lungs would be full of hot rubber bits.

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The Daily Mail providing the story?

Skeptical in the highest order.

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Feb 17, 2016 22:42:01 GMT @funky said:

The Daily Mail providing the story?

Skeptical in the highest order.

Why? He is an NHS doctor?

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Because I don't trust the Daily Mail to report anything correctly. They'll be telling us next we will be having power blackouts and the worst winter in living memory, just as they have for the last ten years. they also told us to vote Tory.

Report on Newsnight last night gave the counter argument that it is impossible for the body the break down any of the rubber into its constituent carsenagic parts. Where lies the truth? I don't know, but the Daily Mail is not the most reliable.

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Impossible is a strong word (did the report actually say that?), I think the body is capable of doing a lot more than it is given credit for. Hydrochloric acid is one of the many chemicals released in our stomach when we eat. Anyway, inhaling and injesting rubber dust and particles doesn't sound very healthy to me.

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Feb 18, 2016 9:29:02 GMT @funky said:

Because I don't trust the Daily Mail to report anything correctly. They'll be telling us next we will be having power blackouts and the worst winter in living memory, just as they have for the last ten years. they also told us to vote Tory.

Report on Newsnight last night gave the counter argument that it is impossible for the body the break down any of the rubber into its constituent carsenagic parts. Where lies the truth? I don't know, but the Daily Mail is not the most reliable.

I listened to Newsnight on iPlayer just and there was no mention of artificial pitches? Was it another show maybe?

Anyway...lots of reports out there.

Same story in the Telegraph...are they a reliable source?
www.telegraph.co.uk/men/health/are-artificial-sports-pitches-causing-cancer/

www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/30/artificial-turf-cancer-rubber-tires_n_5412140.html

University of Connecuit study results
today.uchc.edu/headlines/2007/nov07/toxins.html

Rugby’s Embracing Of Artificial Pitches May Come To A Halt With Potential Cancer Fears
www.punditarena.com/rugby/pwassell/rugbys-embracing-artificial-pitches-may-come-halt-potential-cancer-fears/

Lots of studies done on the topic..
plantscience.psu.edu/research/centers/ssrc/research/synthetic-turf-health

veeoz (??) and the FA claim they are safe...
www.veooz.com/news/hKQZugl.html

[swaddy Dave]

I don't know if there is any foundation to this claim but if it is proven there would be MASSIVE ramifications.

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I definitely saw it on one programme but can't remember which one now sorry and sorry for making you endure Newsnight!!!

Instinctively I don't think swallowing lots of rubber would be good for you but the spokesperson on the programme I saw was insistent it was not a cause.

Anyway Ian sure there will be more research, one case does not prove a link.

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Actually Newsnight was ok to listen to while surfing with me foot elevated... UK and the EU, Refugees, Drugs and Atheism.

One of the stories....
An American Pharmecutical company make a drug that cures Hepatitis C
The cost to make the drug needed for a 12 week course of treatment - £100
The price they charge the UK gov't for that one course - £35K