I bring you the following information from Consumer Reports. Lead is everywhere, existing in a ton of your household goods and children’s playtoys. Love that lead. Here is what they found:
Our lab tests detected lead at widely varying levels in samples of dishware, jewelry, glue stick caps, vinyl backpacks, children’s ceramic tea sets, and other toys and items not on any federal recall list.
Samples of a Fisher-Price blood pressure cuff that is part of a toy medical kit had surface lead in worrisome amounts. Parents should remove this toy from use.
And more on that…
Our tests found high total lead levels in three new samples of a red toy blood pressure cuff from classic Fisher-Price Medical Kits purchased in the New York area and three samples from the homes of employees of the Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports.
We detected the highest concentration of total lead, more than 10,000 parts per million, in a cuff that a child had regularly played with for the past two years.
Right. Like my kids. Because we totally have this set. The kids LOVE it. When Kate was a baby, Will used to give her daily check-ups.
Leigh C. | 06-Nov-07 at 2:10 pm | Permalink
Whoops. Guess I’ll have to send all the GeoTrax trains back…
It’s amazing how many toys out there are still made by Fisher-Price. Guess nobody should buy from them at all anymore.
As for that cuff, my son has that doctor’s set, but he lost most of the pieces of it a long time ago – except for the stethoscope.
miss michelle | 07-Nov-07 at 3:50 pm | Permalink
OOPS! Didn’t I give Will that doctor set for his birthday last year?