Healthy Kids & Green Parenting Fair

Saturday, March 20th, 2010 10am to 3pm

Mark your calendars and tell your friends about the upcoming Healthy Kids and Green Parenting Fair, sponsored by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department.  Essco Safety Check is participating in the Healthy Kids & Green Parenting Fair by providing FREE toy and consumer product testing to the public. 

This year’s fair will be held on Saturday, March 20th, 2010. It will be in the auditorium at the South Park Community Center (4851 South Tacoma Way) and will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Admission is free.

Bring your children’s toys, family heirlooms, jewelry, dishes, coffee cups, plastic bottles or anything that you would want non-destructively tested for harmful heavy metals.  We utilize laboratory-grade, handheld, X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) analyzers to detect the presence of a variety of potentially harmful elements such as lead, cadmium, arsenic, mercury, chlorine, and other elements.

The fair is a place to learn about protecting your child from toxins in the environment, and to find resources to help you make healthier, greener choices, like safer toys and personal care products, natural yard care, organic foods, cloth diapers, breastfeeding, and babywearing. We will offering free lead testing of toys and other consumer products, but there will be free blood lead testing for children and pregnant or nursing moms. There will be a babywearing fashion show at 11 a.m. and drawings all day for really fantastic door prizes including an organic ERGObaby Carrier, Sleepy Wrap, cloth diapers, Hotsling, BabyLegs, organic cotton baby clothes, and a nursing pillow/cover. Free eco-friendly art supplies for the first 50 kids attending!

For more information visit http://www.essco-safetycheck.com/PR/HealthyKidsGreenParentingFair3-20-10.pdf or contact Chris Matter-Rinehart at 253-798-6492 or cmatter@tpchd.org. See you there!

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