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There weren't enough fretful mothers to go around at today's media scrum/toy test in San Francisco's Union Square. Read all about it here
The Center for Environmental Health is taking lead safety into its own hands by using portable testers that cost something like $50,000 per. The San Francisco’s Department of the Environment thinks this a swell idea, so people brought in holiday toys today to see how they checked out for heavy metals.
Would the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission approve of today's event? Has this federal watchdog been co-opted by industry? Is the Center for Environmental Health a "bounty hunter" practicing "legal blackmail"? What about lead that's in most of the lipstick available for sale these days? You might put that right on your skin every day of course.
Think about that when you click to make the jump. See Bob's Big Boy getting irradiated plus plus an example of a toy that failed.
Bob's Big Boy getting irradiated.
Of course a "lead burden" is something you don't want in your blood or anybody else's. So it would be hard to call the lead in toys issue hysteria.
But, as always, you make the call. Here's a nice on the one hand, on the other hand. And here's another good one: Misplaced Anxiety Over Toys? Stay safe.
A lot of lead in this toy. You might not want to Pet My Coat
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I was going to bring the carton of Marlboro's that I got for my kid up to Union Square to have the Dept of Environment test them, but I just ran out of time.