Get the Lead Out
Everyone knows lead is bad news for kids. So how did 300,000 Reebok customers last year end up with give-away charm bracelets that turned out to be 90 percent lead?
Like this: Oops. But never fear, the Environmental Protection Agency is here! It will demand a recall. And we know how effective those are.
Recalls can be tedious, though, especially when you're issuing them like every two months, just for lead problems. So yesterday, the EPA agreed to ban
children's jewelry containing more than 0.06 percent lead by weight. A
government agency hard at work safeguarding the lives of our nation's
children? Well, not exactly. It had to get sued first.
Maybe we're being too hard on the EPA. After all, it must be tough to keep track of all the yucky stuff out there when you have to spend most of your time and resources on proving that global warming is the invention of Chicken Little tree-huggers. In any event, we'll take what we can get. A ban on products that could poison or kill our kids sounds like good news to us.
EPA Agrees to Cut Lead in Kids' Products [AP]
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