Toxic Toys: Lead, Arsenic, Mercury Contaminate One Of Three Popular Toys
December 23rd, 2008 by Ethan‘Tis the season for making lists and checking them twice.
But it’s time for all you gifters to double-check toys for tots this Christmas and Hanukkah season.
An astounding one third of the most popular 1,500 children’s toys contain toxic chemicals like lead, arsenic, mercury, bromine, cadmium, and others.
This from an article on Forbes.com:
On Feb. 10, 2009, a new federal law — the Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act — will set new limits on the amount of arsenic, cadmium, mercury, lead and other potentially unsafe chemicals allowed in children’s products. The new legal limit for cadmium in children’s products will be 75 parts per million, arsenic will be 25 ppm, mercury will be 60 ppm and lead will be 600 ppm. Based on these limits and related safety standards limiting bromine levels to 1000 ppm,
the Ecology Center generated its list of the year’s “worst toys,” which includes, but doesn’t rank, the toys with highest levels of lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury or bromide.
Check here and here for some of the most popular toxic toys.
These toxic chemicals wreak havoc on our children. Read more about chemicals of concern.
Go to HealthyToys.org to test whether your child’s toys are safe, take action by contacting your Federal representative or by signing a petition for safe toys sent to manufacturers!
Last-minute shopping? Go for green toys at Earth Smart Games, GreenToys.com and Amazon.com. Check out more green toys at A Child Grows In Brooklyn.
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