Lots of those gumball machine necklaces are full of lead too. I spent a couple of bucks getting Egyptian
charms out of one and they're pretty but i wouldn't give them to a kid.
I was reading this today and since there are so many of us with girls, I thought I would post it.
800,000 bracelets recalled for lead danger
4-year-old child died after swallowing Reebok jewelry, government says
Updated: 8:28 a.m. ET March 23, 2006
WASHINGTON - More than 800,000 pieces of children?s jewelry are being recalled by two companies because of the danger of lead poisoning that killed one child, the government said Thursday.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said about 300,000 silver-colored, heart-shaped charm bracelets were recalled by Reebok International Ltd., a unit of Germany?s Adidas-Salomen AG, after a 4-year-old child swallowed one of the bracelets and died of lead poisoning.
?I want to assure all of our consumers and our retailers that I will do everything in my power to ensure that no other family, no other child, suffers a similar tragedy,? Reebok President Paul Harrington said in a statement.
The 8-inch-long metal bracelets and charms have the name ?Reebok? engraved on the side of the charm. The bracelet was provided as a free gift with the purchase of various styles of children?s footwear at major shoe stores nationwide from May 2004 through March 2006.
In a separate action Thursday, the CPSC said about 580,000 necklace and ring sets, imported by Dollar Tree Distribution Inc., are being recalled for a lead poisoning danger.
The silver-colored, adjustable rings come in a variety of designs with a toy ?gem? in the center. The necklaces have a black string with silver-colored clasps and a silver-colored charm with a ?gem? in the center.
The packages are printed with ?Mood Necklace,? Mood Ring,? ?Glow in the Dark Necklace,? ?Glow in the Dark Ring,? ?UV Necklace? or ?UV Ring.? The ?UV? jewelry packaging reads, ?The Sun?s Energy Will Change The Color.? Printed on the back of the packaging is ?SKU.815485? and the name ?Mannix.?
The jewelry was sold at Dollar Tree, Dollar Bills, Dollar Express, Greenbacks, Only $1 and Super Dollar Tree stores nationwide from September 2003 through February 2006.
Consumers owning either the Reebok or Dollar Tree jewelry should take it from children immediately, the CPSC said.
For more information, call CPSC at 800-638-2772 or Dollar Tree at 800-876-8077.
? 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
<font color="#33CCCC" size="1">[ March 24, 2006 05:25 PM: Message edited by: judiaci ]</font>
Lots of those gumball machine necklaces are full of lead too. I spent a couple of bucks getting Egyptian
charms out of one and they're pretty but i wouldn't give them to a kid.
I think my DD got one of those Reebock charms free with her shoes. I think it is lost which is a good thing in this case. [img]eek.gif[/img]
How sad. [img]frown.gif[/img]
SCARY [img]eek.gif[/img]
Yeah. If you give jewelry to kids young enough to potineally swallow it, ONLY give them real gold. Most cheap jewelry has lead in it. I know gold is safe because one of the kids in the family swallowed a 14k gold ring. It caused no problems at all. (besides having to wait for it to uh eliminate, and find it)
Jewelry isn't the only seemingly innoucous item containg large amounts of lead. Recently there was a big scare when kids died and got sick with lead poisoning from eating imported Mexican candies. Some of them have as much lead as eating paint chips. [img]frown.gif[/img]
http://ocregister.com/investigations...ad/index.shtml
I don't let my son eat ANY Mexican candy because of it.
I never heard that about Mexican candy. Why would it contain lead? Is it in the coloring?
This is awful!
People have to stop putting lead in jewelry just because it's cheaper.
I'd gladly shell out a few extra bucks for jewelry that I knew wasn't going to harm anything.
My cat is always eating stuff of the floor so this bothers me.
Did you know that so many Romans died because their pipes in their plumbing systems were made out of lead? Well it happened, of course only the rich could afford plumbing so basically only the rich died.
Lead poisoning/ lead related deaths have a long history.
On this general topic, I do want to point out for those with children that if you have a Samantha's lunch from prior to 1994, the food IS painted with lead paint. They were recalled in 1994. Mine never got sent back, because as my mom put it "You're nine years old, if you're putting toys in your mouth we have a completely different problem." lol, I wasn't much of an eater of real food, let alone fake food. I thought I should just point this out to anyone who might have small enough children for it to be a problem.
<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Wow! I never knew that. Thanks for pointing it out.Originally posted by mayergirl:
On this general topic, I do want to point out for those with children that if you have a Samantha's lunch from prior to 1994, the food IS painted with lead paint. They were recalled in 1994. Mine never got sent back, because as my mom put it "You're nine years old, if you're putting toys in your mouth we have a completely different problem." lol, I wasn't much of an eater of real food, let alone fake food. I thought I should just point this out to anyone who might have small enough children for it to be a problem.
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