Many toys in test have dangerous chemicals: report

Many toys in test have dangerous chemicals: report
Assistant Manager of Kinder Haus Toys Laura Grossi removes toys from the store's shelves in Arlington, Virginia, August 14, 2007. Tests on about 1,200 children's items by a group of consumer and environmental health organizations revealed more than a third contained lead and other potentially harmful chemicals, including mercury, cadmium and arsenic, the Wall Street Journal said Wednesday in its online edition. (Jim Young/Reuters)NEW YORK (Reuters) - Tests on about 1,200 children's itemsby a group of consumer and environmental health organizationsrevealed more than a third contained lead and other potentiallyharmful chemicals, including mercury, cadmium and arsenic, theWall Street Journal said Wednesday in its online edition.
The study also showed that jewelry products were mostlikely to contain high lead levels, and it uncovered a varietyof tainted items, including bedroom slippers, bath toys andcard-game cases, according to the Journal.
Certain toys had more than five times the standard safetylevel, including a Hannah Montana card-game case, which had alead level of 3,056 parts per million, the Journal said.
Millions of toys have been recalled this year, with mostinvolving Chinese-made products.
"We're publishing the results of our test with the hopethat we can urge the government to do this kind of thingthemselves," Tracey Easthope, director of the EnvironmentalHealth Project of the Ecology Center, told the Journal.
The Michigan-based Environmental Health Project of theEcology Center spearheaded the project, the Journal said.
(Editing by Quentin Bryar)