I swear I wasn’t looking for more recalls. I was up because my daughter, Lael, was kicking me in the head at 2 a.m. By the time I got her back to sleep, I was wide awake.
During my web meanderings, I came across yet another, albeit older, story about lead recalls in California. Stores there “have pulled lead-tainted children’s jewelry from their shelves after state investigators found bracelets, rings and necklaces contaminated with as much as 600 times the legal limit of the poisonous element,” reports the Los Angeles Times .
The lead was discovered by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, which “ordered 11 retail outlets this week to remove more than a dozen types of jewelry for children.”
The agency has been aggressively acting on a new law that is designed to ferret out lead in children’s jewelry. Violations cost $2,500 per day per each item of jewelry sold.
Regulators were shocked to find one-third of the jewelry tested came up positive for lead. “The problem is much more pervasive than we would like to be seeing,” Maureen Gorsen, director of the toxic substances agency, tells the Times. “We’re going to be working up the supply chain to determine where they are coming from.”
Go here to see the list of recalled jewelry. The pictured necklace, which was sold from a gumball machine, contained a whopping 368,000 parts per million lead.
During my web meanderings, I came across yet another, albeit older, story about lead recalls in California. Stores there “have pulled lead-tainted children’s jewelry from their shelves after state investigators found bracelets, rings and necklaces contaminated with as much as 600 times the legal limit of the poisonous element,” reports the Los Angeles Times .
The lead was discovered by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control, which “ordered 11 retail outlets this week to remove more than a dozen types of jewelry for children.”
The agency has been aggressively acting on a new law that is designed to ferret out lead in children’s jewelry. Violations cost $2,500 per day per each item of jewelry sold.
Regulators were shocked to find one-third of the jewelry tested came up positive for lead. “The problem is much more pervasive than we would like to be seeing,” Maureen Gorsen, director of the toxic substances agency, tells the Times. “We’re going to be working up the supply chain to determine where they are coming from.”
Go here to see the list of recalled jewelry. The pictured necklace, which was sold from a gumball machine, contained a whopping 368,000 parts per million lead.