Lead complaint filed against Disney

[tracilicious]

Heavy metals wreak havoc on your body. The fact that there were toxic substances in our toys doesn't make me feel any better. It's not like we're a healthy generation. Awareness is a good thing.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Heavy metals wreak havoc on your body. The fact that there were toxic substances in our toys doesn't make me feel any better. It's not like we're a healthy generation. Awareness is a good thing.

http://www.oehha.ca.gov/prop65/background/p65plain.html
"For chemicals that are listed as causing birth defects or reproductive harm, the "no observable effect level" is determined by identifying the level of exposure that has been shown to not pose any harm to humans or laboratory animals. Proposition 65 then requires this "no observable effect level" to be divided by 1,000 in order to provide an ample margin of safety. Businesses subject to Proposition 65 are required to provide a warning if they cause exposures to chemicals listed as causing birth defects or reproductive harm that exceed 1/1000th of the "no observable effect level."

The claim is that these toys have 32 times the legal limit, the legal limit being 1/1000 the amount that causes even the SLIGHTEST effect in a lab environment (meaning, I'm sure, prolonged exposure). Run for the hills!!!! These bracelets have 33 times less lead than is necessary to cause one rat in a thousand to have a birth defect after being rubbed with lead every day of its life!!!!!!!!

Sigh. When you put big scary warnings on EVERYTHING, it diminishes the importance of actual danger. I find it difficult to be up in arms about this very very minor incident. Is it good that there's a large safety net? Absolutely. But it's a large safety net, and it's served its purpose. Can we stop fearing for the lives of our children now?

My favorite is the threshold for substances known to cause cancer. If there is an amount that would cause an increased likelihood for 1 in 100,000 individuals after regular exposure for 70 years...they have to slap the warning on it.

[Stan4dSteph]

A lot of the crap jewelry they used to sell in those little vending machines was filled with lead also. The problem with it is that kids chew on the stuff and ingest the lead. Since kids are smaller and their brains are still developing, lead is more of a worry for them.

I don't know all the details behind the case, but I don't have a problem with telling Disney to stop selling crap with lead in it. Use something else or stop selling it. Buying crap from cheap overseas wholesalers can bite you in the ass.

[FEJ]

Originally Posted by tracilicious

Heavy metals wreak havoc on your body.

I know..my head hurts frim headbanging and being in the slam pit \m/ \m/

[DwoernAdale]

"The Disney jewelry includes a "mood" necklace and bracelet with vinyl cords that contain high levels of lead, the center says."

Hmm. I have been wearing just such a necklace since my Mom bought me and my brother one each back in June of '03 in Adventureland.

I wonder if its the same one

I wonder if I have been being slowly poisoned since then

I wonder if I should try to find out

I wonder who I would contact to do so

All kidding aside, I do wonder if I should be concerned. I've been wearing the damn thing for almost two years non stop. And yes, I did take it off.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by DwoernAdale

All kidding aside, I do wonder if I should be concerned. I've been wearing the damn thing for almost two years non stop. And yes, I did take it off.

Again, referring to my link above, even if the claims turn out to be true, then the lead is still at a level that's more than 30 times below levels ever shows to produce any effects in a lab environment. I wouldn't be too concerned.