Parents: Outdated standard used to test track fumes

Parents of students at a primary school in Wuhan, Hubei province, say their children were sickened by fumes emitted by a new synthetic running track and that an inappropriate standard was used to test the material.

The incident mirrors a similar one at schools in several provinces in 2016.

Samples of the track at Canglong No 2 Primary School in Wuhan were immediately tested and found to meet national standards, the publicity office of the city's Jiangxia district said on Monday, adding that testing reports were issued by two organizations.