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November 18, 2007
Chigao Trib: Many more toys tainted with lead
Today's Chicago Tribune has an extensive investigative story by Ted Gregory and Sam Roe called Many more toys tainted with lead, inquiry finds: Many Chicago-area stores are routinely selling lead-tainted toys, including items with levels more than 10 times government safety limits, testing by the Tribune shows. In one of the most comprehensive inquiries into lead in children's products, the Tribune tested about 800 toys and other items sold in shops, department stores, supermarkets, discount outlets and on the Internet. In our Congressional efforts to enact child safety reforms and improve the ability of the CPSC to protect us, the issue of lead is one of the biggest areas of dispute between advocates and industry. How much can we reduce its levels in children's toys, jewelry and other products, and how fast? What exceptions and alternate tests that could lead to loopholes will be allowed? The Trib discusses many of the important issues.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at November 18, 2007 01:16 PM
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