Healthy Kids & Green Parenting Fair Tacoma, WA 3-20-10
The Healthy Kids & Green Parenting Fair was held yesterday in Tacoma, WA. Hundreds of people attended some to have their toys and consumer products tested for heavy metals, others brought their children to have their blood screened for lead, all came to browse the 30 or so venders and learn about new “organic” products.
Essco Safety Check provided free consumer product testing using X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzers. Toys were tested, children’s plates and cups, children’s jewelry, parents wedding rings and women’s handbags.
Lead and cadmium were both found in some of the items, but overall the children’s products tested were found with little if any lead or cadmium. However, a woman’s handbag strap was found to be made with PVC as well as over lead over 1200 PPM. In one woman’s wedding ring, cadmium was found over 1000 PPM.
Essco Safety Check is proud to help people and businesses know what is in their environment. If we can help you understand your environment, you can make educated decisions as to what you and your children are exposed to or about the products you sell.
Over the years of providing testing services, we have collected a variety of samples of products that contain harmful heavy metals.
Here are some of the items that have lead, cadmium, arsenic and mercury.
Products we've found with harmful heavy metals (Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic & Mercury)
If a consumer product that you or your children use regularly has heavy metals in it, it does not mean that that product will harm you or your children, however, there is the potential for harm. With knowledge you can mitigate harm.
