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Horrendous lead exposure from playing UK
Christmas game Toad in the Hole
LEAPP Alliance
Two emails from Hesaan Sheridan, Heritage Testing Limited, United Kingdom and LEAPP Alliance - Lead
Exposure and Poisoning Prevention Alliance - A joint initiative of the Lead Containing Materials Association
and Lead Safe World UK, December 2024
Game of Toads IMAGE UK Christmas game
Toad in the Hole.from
https://www.gameoftoads.com/ - For all
things related to the MOST leadtacular
game in the world
Sent: Monday, 30 December 2024
Re: article by Laura Hughes in the Financial
Times: 'A timebomb’: fears for children
being poisoned by lead paint in UK
homes - Lack of routine testing means
thousands of youngsters could be suffering
from effects, say experts.
https://www.ft.com/content/e0f09d7f-
5f05-4902-8778-c0ee7a13cbcd
Great article. I agree with the potential danger from lead paint... it’s very real!!!
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Watch out for Toad In the Hole game during Xmas festivities... don’t let your children near it.
The amount of lead shed into their hands is horrendous (corroborated by our tests)
• https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2022-04-20/toad-in-the-hole-the-sussex-pub-
game-that-has-nothing-to-do-with-the-food
• https://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2022/09/29/old-fashioned-sussex-pub-game-
enjoys-brighton-revival/
• https://www.gameoftoads.com/ - For all things related to the MOST leadtacular game
in the world
• https://www.sussexliving.com/features/features/sporty-sussex-goes-indoors-toad-in-
the-hole/
It's a bit of a child magnet but please don't let your child near it!!
Kind regards,
Hesaan Sheridan
Sent: Monday, 30 December 2024
Re Q: Interesting, so the brass coins shed so much lead? Had no idea, does all brass do that?
Not the brass coins so much (although wipe tests would show that they do shed lead), it’s the
constant of the impact of the brass coins on the lead lined table with the hole in it. The table
is made of lead because it’s part of the game. It absorbs the energy and does not cause
"bounce". But you also get tiny shards of lead that are produced on impact and also constant
abrasion from the game itself. So lead hazards are high for the immediate area and beyond
(including surfaces and floors). And the measured amount on the sides of a drinking glass of
a player who is constantly touching it is horrendous.
The staff at these establishments serve the customers and families play the game too.
I look on in impotence knowing what the dangers are. Even the establishment who allowed
me to take the tests of players hands do not wish to follow it up, because others do not seem
to have a problem so why should they.
Kind regards,
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Hesaan Sheridan
Heritage Testing Limited
Unit 43, The Old Brickworks, Station Road, Plumpton Green, East Sussex, England, BN7
3DF.
Tel: +44 (0) 1273-891785
Web - http://www.heritagetesting.co.uk and http://www.testforlead.co.uk
Heritage Testing Ltd is a private limited company. Registered in England No. 05353671. Registered Office: 10 Dellney Avenue, Haywards Heath, West
Sussex, RH16 3ND.
