'These findings identify a previously unknown human exposure route to rubber additives,' the authors wrote.
Climbing gyms might be teeming with toxic rubber particles, recent research suggests. The study found high levels of rubber additives in the air and dust of two climbing gym s, likely coming from the soles of specialized climbing shoe s worn by gym goers. The authors say that customers and workers might be getting exposed to more of these particles at climbing gym s than they would be anywhere else in their daily lives.
They also detected nine out of the 15 rubber-derived compounds in the air, and 12 of these compounds in dust. Verifying their suspicions, they found high levels of these same compounds in climbing shoe samples, with one sample containing all 15. These compounds were also found in the powder collected from the top of climbing footholds, further supporting their hypothesis.
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