Comments on: Lead in Our Toys http://www.cobaltdragon.com/index.php/2008/02/20/lead-in-our-toys/ This blog is a record of my adoption journey and small slice of my and my son's day-to-day life. Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:18:12 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Melissa http://www.cobaltdragon.com/index.php/2008/02/20/lead-in-our-toys/comment-page-1/#comment-312 Melissa Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:54:23 +0000 http://www.cobaltdragon.com/index.php/02/20/2008/lead-in-our-toys/#comment-312 Jonathan, I'm sure you of all people are well aware of this already but apparently it's not just lead in the toys. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/flipflop.asp This made me so frightened. I'm always buying little cheap cute things that I know I'll just use a couple times, like flip flops, or a plastic watch or something along those lines. These images have me thinking twice. Yesterday I bought Mia two toys from Big Lots, a Disney Princess camera and a Disney Princess digital music player made by Creative Designs. I even looked on the back of the package and saw a comment stating "This product conforms to the safety requirements of ASTM:F963". I went home and looked up the standard http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/DATABASE.CART/REDLINE_PAGES/F963.htm?E+mystore I just had to chuckle. I could still be giving my child a toy with lead in it just as you said in your post. It's not funny at all, but what is chuckle worthy to me was that the comment on the package was supposed to somehow make me think everything must be a-okay. When I got home I tried to find info on the two toys I'd purchased but couldn't find anything other than a couple re-calls on other toys the company has produced. It's awful that as parents we have to go through all this just to give our kids some toys. And worse, that our children can be harmed completely unnecessarily! Jonathan, I’m sure you of all people are well aware of this already but apparently it’s not just lead in the toys. http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/flipflop.asp

This made me so frightened. I’m always buying little cheap cute things that I know I’ll just use a couple times, like flip flops, or a plastic watch or something along those lines. These images have me thinking twice. Yesterday I bought Mia two toys from Big Lots, a Disney Princess camera and a Disney Princess digital music player made by Creative Designs. I even looked on the back of the package and saw a comment stating “This product conforms to the safety requirements of ASTM:F963″. I went home and looked up the standard http://www.astm.org/cgi-bin/SoftCart.exe/DATABASE.CART/REDLINE_PAGES/F963.htm?E+mystore

I just had to chuckle. I could still be giving my child a toy with lead in it just as you said in your post. It’s not funny at all, but what is chuckle worthy to me was that the comment on the package was supposed to somehow make me think everything must be a-okay. When I got home I tried to find info on the two toys I’d purchased but couldn’t find anything other than a couple re-calls on other toys the company has produced.

It’s awful that as parents we have to go through all this just to give our kids some toys. And worse, that our children can be harmed completely unnecessarily!

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