‘Tis the Season/To Be Lead-Free/Fa La La La La/La La La La
As recently as last week, a nonprofit in Ann Arbor, Michigan, discovered that a staggering 35 percent of the 1,200 toys it tested, many of them still being sold despite a slew of cautionary coverage and recalls over the last several weeks, contained lead:
Only 20 percent of the toys and other products had no trace of lead or harmful chemicals, according to the results being released Wednesday by the Michigan-based Ecology Center along with the national Center for Health, Environment and Justice and groups in eight other states.
Of the 1,268 items tested, 23 were among millions of toys recalled this year.
What’s a parent — or Santa — to do? See the Ecology Center’s Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys, which allows you to search for toys by name, brand, or type and then kicks back info about their levels of lead, cadmium, arsenic and other harmful chemicals.
Man. Poisoned toys. Even the Grinch wouldn’t stoop so low. | 501(c)
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