Children's Jewelry from China

[FloridaBuckeye]

AP: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from China - Yahoo! News


Just one of the many reasons that the US needs to start regulating what comes into this country! We have become the dumping ground for everyone else's crap! If we start making things here again, we could not only regulate how things are made, but put alot of our citizens back to work!

I am proud to say that I bought all American made goods this year for Christmas. Sorry to say, but I had to do alot of it online because this area does not handle alot of items made in the USA! I try to buy local, but it's hard to do if I want to keep supporting the entire US instead of just the Panhandle of Florida. I did find some great art glass and jewelry made in the US, but clothing and toys...NOPE!

People can argue all they want about foreign versus American made, but if our government would let us mine, manufacture and produce, alot of our problems could be solved. It would help unemployment and health care to just name a couple!!

 

[sunspotbaby]

scary.

"Some of the most troubling test results were for bracelet charms sold at Walmart, at the jewelry chain Claire's and at a dollar store. High amounts of cadmium also were detected in "The Princess and The Frog" movie-themed pendants."

 

[Zebraspots]

Companies can easily make things here, it's just that people buy the cheap crap instead think they are getting a deal.

And it isn't working out so well for the Chinese - they are poisoning their country and population too.

 

[scooterbug44]

"There's nothing positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7.

"Clearly it seems like for a metal as toxic as cadmium, somebody ought to be watching out to make sure there aren't high levels in items that could end up in the hands of kids," said Weidenhamer.

His test results include:
• Three flip flop bracelet charms sold at Walmart contained between 84 and 86 percent cadmium. The charms fared the worst of any item on the stomach acid test; one shed more cadmium in 24 hours than what World Health Organization guidelines deem a safe exposure over 60 weeks for a 33-pound child.
The bracelet was purchased in August 2008. The company that imported them, Florida-based Sulyn Industries, stopped selling the item to Wal-Mart Corp. in November 2008, the firm's president said. Wal-Mart would not comment on whether the charms are still on store shelves, or how many have been sold.

In separate written statements, Dickens and Wal-Mart said they consider safety a very high priority. "We consistently seek to sell only those products that meet safety and regulatory standards," Wal-Mart said. "Currently there is no required cadmium standard for children's jewelry." As was the case with every importer or retailer that responded to AP's request for comment on the tests, neither Sulyn nor Wal-Mart would address whether the results concerned them or if the products should be recalled.

God forbid Wal-mart take some initiative or responsibility! :angry:

 

[poppy]

"There's nothing positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7.

"Clearly it seems like for a metal as toxic as cadmium, somebody ought to be watching out to make sure there aren't high levels in items that could end up in the hands of kids," said Weidenhamer.

His test results include:
• Three flip flop bracelet charms sold at Walmart contained between 84 and 86 percent cadmium. The charms fared the worst of any item on the stomach acid test; one shed more cadmium in 24 hours than what World Health Organization guidelines deem a safe exposure over 60 weeks for a 33-pound child.
The bracelet was purchased in August 2008. The company that imported them, Florida-based Sulyn Industries, stopped selling the item to Wal-Mart Corp. in November 2008, the firm's president said. Wal-Mart would not comment on whether the charms are still on store shelves, or how many have been sold.

In separate written statements, Dickens and Wal-Mart said they consider safety a very high priority. "We consistently seek to sell only those products that meet safety and regulatory standards," Wal-Mart said. "Currently there is no required cadmium standard for children's jewelry." As was the case with every importer or retailer that responded to AP's request for comment on the tests, neither Sulyn nor Wal-Mart would address whether the results concerned them or if the products should be recalled.

God forbid Wal-mart take some initiative or responsibility! :angry:

Headline from yesterday:

Walmart pulling toxic jewelry cited in report
Regulator warns China firms on toxic metal use

LOS ANGELES - Federal and state watchdogs have issued stern warnings on the use of toxic ingredients in Chinese imports, and Walmart has pulled children’s jewelry items cited in an Associated Press report on cadmium contamination.

Also from the same report:

Walmart said the AP report was troubling, “and we have a responsibility to take swift action.”