ApocaDocs: AP IMPACT: Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses

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Posted Mon Nov 22 2010: from Associated Press:


	AP IMPACT: Cadmium, lead found in drinking glasses http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1290439339 Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from "The Wizard of Oz" exceed federal limits for lead in children's products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned by The Associated Press. The decorative enamel on the superhero and Oz sets -- made in China and purchased at a Warner Brothers Studios store in Burbank -- contained between 16 percent and 30.2 percent lead. The federal limit on children's products is 0.03 percent. The same glasses also contained relatively high levels of the even-more-dangerous cadmium, though there are no federal limits on that toxic metal in design surfaces.

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