Now @ Dollar Tree! 483,672 ppm Lead Wristwatch! 447,539 ppm Cadmium Earrings! But Wait!

There's more!

MONTPELIER — A “Sassy and Chic” watch that Dollar Tree stores once sold for less than a dollar in Vermont contained 483,672 parts per million of lead — 1,600 times the federal cap for the amount of lead in children’s products. A glittery rhinestone decoration on a ponytail band from Dollar Tree contained 49,484 parts per million of lead, when the federal limit is 300 parts per million. Dangly earrings: 447,539 parts per million of cadmium, another toxic metal that federal regulation says is safe in surface treatments at a maximum concentration of 75 parts per million. A “Sassy and Chic” necklace: 22,751 parts per million of cadmium and 152,132 parts per million lead.

These toxicity findings prompted the Vermont Attorney General’s Office to pursue and achieve a legal agreement with Dollar Tree Inc. that removed these items from store shelves and prevents similar items from being sold in the future. Dollar Tree, based in Chesapeake, Va., operates 3,806 discount variety stores, including six in Vermont.

This is the state’s second settlement with a retail giant over the distribution and sale of cheap metal items that pose serious hazards for children. In December 2008, the state reached a settlement with Ganz USA, a distributor of charms and metal trinkets. Vermont also was party to a multi-state settlement with Mattel Inc. and Fisher Price Inc. regarding the selling of toys with high lead levels in exterior coatings.

“We are continuing to do product buys,” said Elliot Burg, the assistant attorney general who has handled Vermont’s toxic-metal cases. “But the message we are interested in getting out to people is that buying or having cheap, imported jewelry is a real risk to kids. “What would I say to parent?” Burg continued. “‘Take cheap jewelry away from kids. Don’t buy it. If you already have it, get rid of it.’”

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http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20100208/NEWS02/100207013/Vermont-fights-to-get-lead-out-state-settles-with-discount-retailer-over-toxic-jewelry

:wow:

Fuck that.

free to poison consumers...

Lead? Cadmium? lol

At least that's what I hear from some DUers. :puke:

That would be coal smokestacks, followed by garbage incineration.

The amount of mercury in a vaccine is trivial when compared to these sources, and the risk of such mercury is trivial when compared to the risk of, for instance, measles.

Another large source of mercury is the good ole' flourescent bulb, the mercury of which finds its way into water supplies after perculating through landfills.

a big difference. Doesn't it seem that way to you?

like these. But I'm willing to bet these toxic metal items are being sold in all 50 states.

At a time when companies from Duracell to Underwriters Laboratories have entire staffs devoted to policing fraudulent use of trademarks. That some of the same perpetrators of trademark infraction wouldn't bother to let something as trivial as a federal or state law in a foreign country impead their pursuit of profit.

Yankee Traders, Ferengi, Let the Buyer Beware.

It's bad enough that this toxic jewelry is sold here but the factories where this stuff is made have got to be the real horror story.

Sheesh...

A demographic on the rise.

:shrug:

for that price. Just pick one that's running, pay your buck, and go. Odds are it's a Timex.