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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: SPA affordable food and housing policy Reply #30 - Mar 24^th, 2018 at 9:43am Can you give some examples of this lead making it's way into food? I know places like Mt Isa have major problems. The people who live there are told not to do any gardening at all I think. But it is the dust that is the problem.
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: SPA affordable food and housing policy Reply #31 - Mar 26^th, 2018 at 9:34pm Here is an interesting article on the topic. No mention of lead in fruit grown in urban areas. https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/octobernovember-2009/reducing-lead-exposure-from-food/
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Reply #32 - Mar 27^th, 2018 at 11:14am

I just want to be clear here. I am not in principle opposed to the idea of planting fruit trees in public parks.

I'm just pointing out that it is a good idea to be cautious. Lead contamination does exist in urban areas, as do other toxic contaminants. It would be prudent to test the soil and the environment for these contaminants before planting fruit trees or community vegetable gardens. Such testing would be far cheaper than the cost of dealing with the future problem of the health effects of eating contaminated food.

Even if lead doesn't get in the food, lead dust could be found on the food.

Some information here:
Safe Soil - Costa revisits the Gordon family with an expert on testing soil safety (Gardening Australia)

Lead Safe Community Gardening (lead.org.au)

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Reply #33 - Mar 27^th, 2018 at 11:15am

freediver wrote on Mar 26^th, 2018 at 9:34pm:

Here is an interesting article on the topic. No mention of lead in fruit grown in urban areas.

https://www.foodsafetymagazine.com/magazine-archive1/octobernovember-2009/reducing-lead-exposure-from-food/

There may be limited information on contamination of urban fruit. There is more information on urban vegetable gardens which are more common.

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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 47460 At my desk.	Re: SPA affordable food and housing policy Reply #34 - Apr 4^th, 2018 at 9:55pm Thanks for the links.
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