ALL of the lipsticks the FDA tested in the summer of 2009 contained lead. 100%. But the FDA says there’s no reason to be concerned. The upper safety limit for lead in candy set by the FDA is 0.1 ppm. They found lead in lipstick at levels of 0.09 ppm to 3.06 ppm. Apparently because [...]
Filed under: Lead, Personal Care Products on January 29th, 2010 | No Comments »
Jewelry purchased at Walmart and Clare’s in November and December of 2009 tested positive for cadmium. In fact, as much as 91% of the weight of the charms tested were cadmium. Cadmium is a toxic heavy metal that manufacturers in China are using in place of lead. Zinc would be a much safer alternative. For [...]
Filed under: Lead on January 11th, 2010 | No Comments »
Protecting my children from the chemicals and toxins in their environment is the passion that caused me to launch this blog 2.5 years ago. After researching BPA and phthalates and working hard to eliminate them from our home, I decided to start this blog to share what I had learned. Now that it is almost [...]
Filed under: BPA, Book recommendation, Chemicals, Children, Lead, PBDEs, Phthalates on December 21st, 2009 | No Comments »
The FDA reported in 2007 that many brands of vitamins contain lead. Sadly, the vitamins found to have lead were designed for pregnant women and children, who are especially susceptible to the dangerous effects of lead. I wish I’d heard about it back then, as we have given one of the brands with the highest [...]
Filed under: Children, Lead on April 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment »
President Bush has signed the bill that I previously mentioned that would ban lead and phthalates from children’s toys. Yay!
Filed under: Children, Lead, Phthalates, Plastic on August 15th, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A friend of mine sent me an email about my previous post and I thought it was worthy of sharing here and responding to since her concerns are very valid.
Do you know if there is any focus on what the replacement materials will be? If the phthalates were in the toys for a specific purpose [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Lead, Plastic on August 8th, 2008 | No Comments »
The House voted 424-1 yesterday to ban lead and six phthalates from children’s products. The lead standards would be the toughest in the world, targeting products designed for children 12 and under. The bill would also double the budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission by 2014 and give it new authority to monitor testing [...]
Filed under: Chemicals, Children, Lead, Plastic on July 31st, 2008 | No Comments »
I was naive to think that we wouldn’t be affected. But sure enough, it happened to us just last week. I found out that some of the toys we owned had been recalled due to the use of lead-based paint.
Filed under: Children, Lead on October 14th, 2007 | No Comments »