Thursday, December 06, 2007

Thanks For The Memories, And The Toxic Poisons In Our Children's Toy

A big Xmas thank you to all those corporations with hearts of gold. Turns out they've been flooding the US with toys containing dangerous levels of lead and other toxic chemicals. In a recent study:

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.

For more information you can visit the The Consumer Action Guide to Toxic Chemicals in Toys.

Looks like many of these companies are interested in being "green", just not in the right way.

1 comment:

ms-teacher said...

I am so glad that I no longer have small children because I would be going crazy right about now. Thankfully mine are at the age where they want all the expensive electronic gadgets they can get their hands on. While my checking account may not be too healthy, at least my children will be :)