Posted on 04/14/2022 10:53:20 AM PDT by bitt
Dollar stores across the United States and Canada are selling products that contain a large number of toxic chemicals, including children’s toys, according to a new study published on April 12.
The study was conducted by the consumer advocacy group, Campaign for Healthier Solutions, and focused on all of the leading dollar store retailers in the United States and Canada: Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, Dollar General, Five Below, and 99 Cents Only Stores.
It found that more than half of the items purchased by researchers at the stores contained one or more chemicals of concern.
At the start of 2021, researchers bought 226 products from stores across the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, New Mexico, Washington, Maine, and Texas in the United States and Ontario in Canada. In total, the products contained 635 unique components or materials.
The products were then tested using various methods depending on the typical chemicals of concern for that specific product type.
In total, researchers found that more than half (53 percent) of the products screened had one or more “chemicals of concern” that are hazardous.
This included canned food goods which contained toxic interior can coatings, including BPA-based epoxy, a type of polymer, and PVC can body coatings, and microwave popcorn products of which 100 percent of the contents tested positive for PFAS coatings, which are typically applied to metal to prevent it from corroding, among other things.
Researchers also found products in the dollar stores that were made with flexible PVC which had “banned, regulated or inadequately studied plasticizers”, consumer electronics with lead solder, flame retardants, and phthalate plasticizers, and a number of products containing other “chemicals of concern” including antimony compounds, organotins, and bromine, which is corrosive to human tissue, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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“Toxic” is meaningless without info about quantity.
It comes from Chy-Na
Thank God we have supply-chain problems! That was a close call.
“consumer electronics with lead solder”
What? All electronics use lead solder.
Water can be toxic if used in high quantities
Time to shut down those stores.
All electronics use lead solder.
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Most all products legally for sale in the U.S. and EU use lead free solder.
No doubt the Chinese dollar store products cheat....
Crap from China?
Ya get what ya pay for.
Not anymore. The Eco-Nazis said that Lead is Bad and that it must be replaced in electronics. So most newer devices are made with Tin and have all sorts of problems with the solder breaking, shorting, etc. Lead solder electronics isn’t even allowed to be sold in the European Union anymore, so most manufacturers stopped using lead
Look up “electronics tin whiskers” for more info about the problems the replacements cause.
Who funded this study, Walmart? Dollar General, a store I have to admit I’ve only been in 3 or 4 times, sells toxic stuff that no other store in the country sells? Pure propaganda.
Five Below is a FIVE-dollar store!
Sounds like someone wants to drive down the stock price.
Your stupid brat might eat it.
You mean like bleach, motor oil and coca-cola?................
Most of the things I buy at the dollar tree are from Mexico. In fact I haven’t seen anything made in China but I just buy things like Q-tips and cotton rounds and starlight peppermints.
FLASH! Dollar Stores Sell Bleach! Film at Eleven!!
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