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Woodchip for school. Health risk?


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Cor blimey guv.... asbestos in children's play sand and complete lack of regulations! That's just stupid.

 

That relates to California but I wonder if it's the same for the UK??

 

When I was reading up about Farmers Lung research says that children aren't affected by mouldy hay, etc in the same way as us adults (although I'm not saying there aren't isolated examples of that).

That makes sense because our son was breathing the same spores that had me coughing for a month.... he was absolutely fine (was age 3 then).

 

cheers, steve

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i alwayts use a mask when moving old chip you can see the amount of green mould and spores in the air. but once the wood chip has settled it should be ok (this is just a guess)

as we use it on pathways and flower bed and you don't see mould and spores get kicked up in the air when walking on it. i think the mould would stay under the top layer as condition's for propagation would be damp and dark.

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