ot: Artists worry about toxic art supplies.

[Guest guest]

Artists worry about toxic art supplies.

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Art supplies like paints and glues can contain lead and other dangerous

compounds. For artists, exposure to art supplies could damage their

lungs, or even the brain...

s paint professionally under the name " Sinister. " He sells his

work in galleries in Michigan and California. Most of the time he paints

outside. But in winter, he's indoors, wearing a respirator or a dust

mask. It's not enough...

~MarketPlace. 28 January 2011.

[Guest guest]

My husband's cousin is an artist and when she was pregnant, she asked her doctor

if it would be safe to continue to paint. It was a water-based paint and the doc

said it was safe to continue. Her daughter was born with a rare foot/bone

disorder and they had to choose to amputate her foot or she would never be able

to walk without crutches. Mom did some research on this " safe " paint and it

turned out quite a few women who had been exposed to this paint had given birth

to babies with this same defect, even a few teachers who didn't use the paint

but who taught in the same school which turned out to be close to the paint

manufacturing plant.