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Name: Janice J.
Status: educator
Age: 20s
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Date: 2001-2002
Question:
Can soil be contaminated with lead through old paint chips that have flaked off into it? If you grow vegetables in this soil, will they absorb any lead?

Replies:
http://www.hort.cornell.edu/gardening/fctsheet/lead.html

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5536.html

Anthony R. Brach, Ph.D.


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