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Investigation Explores Safety Of Artificial Turf Fields

WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- Schools and parks throughout Westchester County and the entire country have been replacing their natural grass fields with an rubber crumb field turf because of its durability and ease of upkeep, but a soccer coach in Seattle believes the chemicals may be making athletes who play on the surface sick, according to NBC News. 

A Seattle soccer coach believes rubber pellet field turf could be causing illness in athletes.

A Seattle soccer coach believes rubber pellet field turf could be causing illness in athletes.

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Amy Griffin, an associate head coach for the University of Washington’s women’s soccer team, knew of two female goalies that played on the artificial surface diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma and got curious. Since then, Griffin has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players who have been diagnosed with some form of cancer, NBC News said. 

While an industry advocacy group still maintains the surfaces are safe, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Consumer Product Safety Commission have now said their studies that once deemed the surface as "safe" are now "limited," NBC News said. 

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