Posted on 07/17/2007 7:13:07 PM PDT by JACKRUSSELL
About 220 Sleeping Beauty crown and Cinderella star earring sets, manufactured in China by Uncas Manufacturing Co., because the recalled metal earring sets contain high levels of lead, which is toxic if ingested by young children.......
......The products were sold at Wal-Mart stores in Florida from February to June 2007. Details: by phone at 800-776-0980; by Web at http://www.cpsc.gov.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Are you familiar with fine crystal and laboratory-medical test tubes made from leaded glass? Yes, there is lead in those items! The fact that a given item has a constituent of lead in it's makeup has little bearing on it's hazard potential to humans.
Any machinist will be familiar with leaded or "free machining" steel. Granted, it's no something you'd want to eat, but if it's that big a deal why not go ballistic over the prospect of having your kids handle fishing sinkers or bullets?
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