Toxic Kids – Part One
August 15, 2011
Toys are serious business especially around the holidays. The 2007 discovery that lead contamination in toys appears to be widespread had parents and grandparents in a panic. Some of the most trusted names in the toy business have had to recall long standing favorites. Fisher-Price alone recalled 967,000 toys. That got everyone’s attention! It seems the availability of less expensive plastic toys made outside the United States may not be such a bargain after all. Parents are turning increasingly to wooden toys stained with vegetable dyes – the old fashioned – and more expensive way.
Lead has gotten most press exposure, but knowledgeable parents have been trying to avoid pthalates – a chemical used to make toys, bottles, and baby equipment soft and pliable. Pthalates and other toxins will be the subject of Toxic Kids parts II and III. Now let’s focus on lead, its sources (not just toys), health effects, testing, and what you can do about it.
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