Showing posts with label toxic toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label toxic toys. Show all posts

Friday, February 27, 2009

No More Kids' Stuff At Goodwill





Ack. A serious dilemma for this here Worried Dad and several of his co-conspirators in the world of guerrilla parenting.

Here's the short of it:

* America want cheap junk from China.

* China complies, but slaps extra lead on every kind of book, toy, lunchbox, and article of clothing to help keep costs down.

* Americans freak out (including your humble blogger here).

* American Congress passes sweeping anti-lead law. Now every store, vendor, producer, etc. of children's anything must prove that their products are lead free.

* Worried Dad then walks into favorite Goodwill store and discovers that all children's clothing and toys are gone, baby, gone.

* Worried Dad ponders global economic apocalypse and wonders if kids today really need all those extra IQ points after all...

Monday, December 8, 2008

Toys will kill you



According to a new report by the Michigan-based Ecology Center, 1 out of every three toys they examined (out of 1,500) tested positive for "medium" to "high" levels of lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC and other harmful chemicals.

The full report can be found here.