Arsenic Label to Show Up on CCA-Treated Wood Products

July 5, 2001

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Washington, D.C. — As part of an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) program designed to increase awareness of the presence of chromated copper arsenate (CCA), consumer warning labels will appear on nearly all treated lumber in the United States starting this fall. Currently, CCA-treated wood is sent to unlined construction and demolition (C&D) debris landfills.

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