Category Archives: Toys
Senators Introduce Children’s Jewelry Legislation
Senators Introduce Children’s Jewelry Legislation
Several prominent lawmakers are trying to stop the use of cadmium in children’s jewelry, following reports that Chinese manufacturers are liberally substituting the dangerous metal in place of safer alternatives, like zinc. The legislation, called the Safe Kid’s Jewelry Act, would ban cadmium, barium and antimony from jewelry marketed [...]
More melamine-tainted milk products found in China
BEIJING – Melamine-tainted dairy products were pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children had been sickened in a massive milk safety scandal, a government spokeswoman said Monday.
The announcement calls into question the effectiveness of a crackdown launched by Chinese officials [...]
Toxic metal found in kids’ jewelry very dangerous
JUSTIN PRITCHARD, Associated Press Writer
Cadmium is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It’s perhaps best known as one half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, electroplating and plastic.
Lab testing organized by The Associated Press shows that it also is present in children’s jewelry — sometimes at eye-popping [...]
RC2 Corp. to pay $1.25 million penalty for selling Thomas & Friends toys containing lead
Laurie Kellman, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — An Illinois firm agreed to pay a $1.25 million settlement for importing and selling Thomas & Friends children’s toys that contained lead levels above legal limits and risked sickening children.
In agreeing to the penalty settlement, RC2 Corp. denied that it knowingly violated federal law as alleged by the [...]