Posted on 12/01/2008 9:11:58 AM PST by Oyarsa
Nov. 25, 2008 -- A consumer watchdog group is urging parents to avoid buying soft plastic toys this holiday season because of a risk that the toys may contain toxic chemicals.
Toys containing the chemicals, called phthalates, can no longer be manufactured or imported after February 2009, according to a product safety law that passed Congress over the summer.
But the group says the Consumer Product Safety Commission is allowing the toy industry to circumvent the law. The agency wrote a letter last week telling manufacturers they can still sell their existing stocks of phthalate-containing toys even after the ban takes effect in February.
"They're giving the industry a loophole," says Liz Hitchcock, a public health advocate for the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG).
Phthalates are a group of chemicals used to soften vinyl and other plastics. Congress banned use of the chemicals in toys because of evidence they can have health effects including early puberty, reproductive defects, and lower sperm counts in boys.
(Excerpt) Read more at children.webmd.com ...
I’m giving my kids the “Big Bag o’ Broken Glass”. It’s very popular.
Oh for cripes sake....
With the toys we had, we should have been dead in minutes.
>>>I’m giving my kids the “Big Bag o’ Broken Glass”.<<<
We always had baseballs or BBguns. We made our own broken glass.
Yes, I survived my wood-burning set and my chemistry set just fine. I don’t even remember any warning labels on them.
Jeez, kids these days are safened to death. My kid prefers to play with blocks, a ball of some sort, and sticks...any one of which is *FAR* more dangerous than some imagined issue with some chemical.
He'll likely get a zillion toys for XMas this year, then go outside and hit a ball with a stick. I could pick up a bag of them in the backyard, wrap them up, and he'd be in 7th heaven.
Your chemistry set wasn’t made by Communists.
More lefties wearing different T-shirts trying to fool the public and ride the free publicity provided by a bored, biased and/or clueless MSM as they once again attempt to ride the Christmas PR wave for free.
"U.S.PIRG is working to achieve campaign finance reform by enforcing tough campaign contribution limits, creating systems of public financing, and enacting lasting lobby reform."
they left off one line:
"except for Obama"
er that was redundant but you get the point
If they cause early onset puberty *and* lower sperm counts, well, ain’t that a wash?
It has been proved that 100 % of all babies born eventually die! Therefore, doesn’t that make abortion a justified way to save babies the agony of life and living by having them die early? (the next justification for abortions by the pro-abort maniacs.)
I rode my bike all over the countryside without a helmet. We had a long steep driveway and I would see how fast I could go and make the corner.....that did not work out in my favor....
My dad took me for rides in the bucket of the tractor.
I used to play with my BB gun and actually shoot things and when I was older my brother would take me target shooting with my dads 22. My brother did get shot but not by me......
On a dare from a neighbor I climbed on the back of a steer....that did not last real long far less than 8 secs....
I built forts by stacking hay bales.....gee they could have collapsed on me...
spent hours in the tire swing and jumping off of it into a pile of leaves....potential to fx something
climbed countless trees....another potential fx
The evidence is thin but the reason we see these toys is because they were concocted to replace latex (rubber) toys because of the rather recent determination that some people are allergic to latex.
The rules demand that toys cause no harm yet there is no practical way to define harm.
They should rename themselves the Public Research Interest Group for the PRIGS they are.
PIRGS are absolute retards. They are wrong so often that it’s quicker to simply be for everything they are against and vice versa. Idiots.
jas3
I’m sure PIRG is on top of this one as well:
90 Percent of U.S. Infant Formula May Be Contaminated with Melamine
NaturalNews.com | 11/29/08 | Mike Adams
Posted on 12/01/2008 10:05:47 AM PST by Oyarsa
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