Don’t use paint brushes on BBQ

The EcoWaste Coalition has warned the public not to use paint brushes to apply basting sauce on barbecue and grilled meat, saying handles of some paint brushes contain high levels of lead way above the threshold limit of 90 parts per million (ppm) for lead in paint.

A chemical screening of 20 paint brushes bought by the activist group on December 22 and 23 for P10 to P84 from hardware and general merchandise stores in the Metro Manila cities of Makati, Mandaluyong, Manila, Pasay and Quezon had shown exceedingly high lead levels.