Test Yours
Most play equipment, picnic tables, and decks built recently are not made with arsenic-treated wood. But if you have older structures, there's an easy way for you to find out if they were made of arsenic-treated materials.
- Put on a pair of disposable gloves.
- Remove a small sample of wood from the structure. It does not need to be bigger than the size of a dime, and a piece half that size is fine.
- Put the piece of wood in a ziplock plastic bag.
- Dispose of the gloves safely.
- Put a label in the bag with your name, your e-mail and postal addresses, and a description of where the sample was taken.
- Send the sample to the Center for Environmental Health (2201 Broadway, Suite 302; Oakland, CA 94612)
- Within two weeks we'll let you know the arsenic concentration of your sample.
- CEH does not charge for testing, but we welcome donations.