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It's about as apprehensible as it gets — rip off the package, spiral the applicable assimilate a bung and your new garden corrupt is acceptable to go.
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At atomic that's what Louise Broyles thought.
"There was no acumen to anticipate it wouldn't be safe," Broyles said. "It's a garden corrupt so why wouldn't it be safe?"
But on the packaging of the garden corrupt was a tiny admonishing that said, "Do not alcohol out of this product," and, "This artefact contains chemicals accepted to the accompaniment of California to account cancer, bearing defects and/or changeable harm."
It turns out some garden hoses may accommodate alarming levels of lead.
In a test, reporters from ABC's Phoenix accessory KNXV-TV bought 10 garden hoses about at places like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Target and Ace Hardware.
They abounding sections of the hoses with apple-pie water, closed the ends and put them alfresco for about a day. Then they delivered that baptize to a lab.
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Five of the 10 hoses came aback with levels of advance college than what the Environmental Protection Agency allows for bubbler water: 15 genitalia per billion. Four of those came aback with acutely aerial advance levels.
"Hoses tend to be fabricated of PVC, which is a bedraggled plastic, and advance is acclimated as a balance in that plastic," said Charlie Pizarro, accessory administrator at the Center for Environmental Health.
In 2004, the CEH sued three of the country's arch corrupt makers for accepting aerial levels of advance in their products.
"Lead is a almighty neurotoxin. There is no bulk of advance that's safe for a child," Pizarro said. "They actualize a accessible bloom accident to children. They put accouchement at accident for academician damage, adorning disabilities and a host of added actual austere problems."
The CEH won a settlement, and the manufacturers agreed to reformulate and decidedly abate advance levels by July 31 of this year.
Pizarro said that acceding was important because admonishing labels weren't enough.
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"There's a charge for a able civic accepted on advance in all products, but decidedly articles that are activity to be acclimated by baby children," he said.
Of the four hoses with the acutely aerial advance levels, the lab begin one with advance levels of 290 genitalia per billion, which is about 20 times college than what the EPA allows for bubbler water.
"I don't apperceive who I authority added amenable — the companies that are absolutely accomplishment the articles or the food that I anticipate that I assurance that are continuing to backpack the products," Broyles said.
ABC News contacted the two companies that accomplish the four hoses that activated aerial in the study.
Colorite-Tekni-Plex, the maker of Colorite Waterworks Products, did not acknowledge to abundant requests for comment.
Teknor Apex, the maker of the Neverkink corrupt that was tested, told ABC News it was in acquiescence with the cloister settlement.
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Pizarro said based on the ABC News investigation, the CEH is accessible to booty action.
"This is appalling," he said. "Shame on you. You cannot be putting advance in articles that accouchement are activity to be advancing in acquaintance with."
Always analysis the characterization on your garden hose. Sometimes it's adamantine to find, but it's there. About all the hoses that were activated had that "do not drink" warning, but it's baby and you accept to attending for it.
Flush the corrupt out afore you use it.
If you can acquisition camper or abyssal or RV hoses, they are about safe for drinking. They're fabricated from medical-grade vinyl. Teknor Apex makes Neverkink and Aquaflex R.V. hoses safe for drinking.
If your corrupt has assumption fittings, they can additionally bleed advance into the water.
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Experts say it's apparently safe to baptize your vegetables with baptize from a garden hose, but you and your pets should abstain bubbler from it. Also, don't ample a adolescent basin with it.
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