View Single Post
  #8   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Martin Bonner Martin Bonner is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,026
Default Test for arsenic in old paint?

On Tuesday, 15 March 2016 15:52:48 UTC+1, Graham. wrote:
Apologies Scott, it's Simon who trawled up the old post not you!

Also the actual OP Anthony Hay had a sample analized and it came back
as 24 parts arsenic per million parts paint.

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/uk.d...E/LcXOKHEu1UIJ


Which to put into context is less than the level at which people start
being worried about arsenic in soil: 32 mg/kg

https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...09bpvy-e-e.pdf

I think I'd still prefer to wet strip it though.