Kids' Jewelry Recalled Due to Cadmium

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The discussion centers on the recall of "The Princess and The Frog" pendants due to high levels of cadmium, a toxic metal, highlighting growing concerns about safety in children's jewelry. Federal regulators found that a significant portion of low-priced children's jewelry contained cadmium levels exceeding safe limits, with one item containing 91% cadmium by weight. The conversation critiques the lack of stringent consumer protection standards and the ongoing issues with product safety in China, referencing past scandals involving contaminated food products. There is frustration over the inadequate response to these safety concerns and a call for better testing and regulations to protect consumers, particularly children. The dialogue also touches on the need for politicians to have a better understanding of scientific principles when making decisions about public safety.
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Jewelry for kids!

Guess where it was made?
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/29/health/AP-US-Cadmium-Jewelry.html
AP said:
Federal consumer safety regulators on Friday announced the recall of ''The Princess and The Frog'' pendants because of high levels of the toxic metal cadmium, an unprecedented action that reflects concerns of an emerging threat in children's products.
 
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You think that they could substitute zinc and use the cadmium for NiCad batteries, but NO! Next, we'll find out that objects that need massive components (like toy gyroscopes) will contain depleted Uranium. Until there is a standard for consumer protection that addresses that (and testing to detect it), don't put it past the Chinese capitalists. The Chinese are STILL being exposed to dairy products adulterated with melamine, years after the initial problems came to light.
 
This is unbelievable:
As part of the AP's original investigation, lab tests conducted on 103 pieces of low-priced children's jewelry found 12 items with cadmium content above 10 percent of the total weight. One item consisted of 91 percent cadmium by weight.
 
The freaking Chinese cadmium probably had too may impurities in it to be used in batteries.
 
''Any detectable levels of cadmium will be deemed a product failure,'' wrote Manuel G. Grace, Disney Co.'s senior vice president for product integrity.

That's idiotic. Using methods sensitive enough you will probably detect all elements in everything.

Somehow that reminds me the story of a politician that was shown wastewater treatment plant and one of chemists on site told him "We start with highly caustic water and we bring pH down to 7". "Why can't you bring it down to zero?"
 
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That's idiotic. Using methods sensitive enough you will probably detect all elements in everything.

Somehow that reminds me the story of a politician that was shown wastewater treatment plant and one of chemists on site told him "We start with highly caustic water and we bring pH down to 7". "Why can't you bring it down to zero?"


yeah, politicians should have to pass a litmus test on scientific knowledge
 

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