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14 Common Toxins that Affect your Child’s Health and Where to Find Them
U.S. PIRG Trouble in Toyland 2012: Don’t give dangerous toys this holiday season
As consumers, we assume that the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is doing their job testing products and ensuring our children's safety. Unfortunately, the task is larger than the organization can handle, and toxic, dangerous toys, mostly manufactured cheaply in foreign countries, riddle the store shelves. As parents and grandparents hunt for bargains, unbeknownst to them they are exposing their children to toxic heavy metals like lead and cadmium, choking hazards, such as magnets, ... continue reading...
Seven Tips for Healthy Painting
by Margie Kelly Communications Manager Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org There's nothing like a fresh coat of paint to improve the look and feel of a room. In the process of making your home beautiful, however, you don't want to contaminate the air you breathe for days or even years by choosing paints that aren't healthy for you or the environment. A major health concern when painting is the increased presence of volatile organic compounds - or VOCs. VOCs are primarily ... continue reading...
Arsenic, Cadmium, Lead, OH MY! Don’t Let Your Kids Wear Cheap Jewelry!
No one wants to buy expensive jewelry for their children, as they may lose or break these pieces; however, cheap jewelry can "contain dangerous levels of cancer-causing toxic chemicals". We are NOT talking about the super cheap jewelry here that comes out of a machine, but jewelry found in major retailers. Time Healthland reports: The Ecology Center and Healthystuff.org report that 59% of low-cost jewelry sold at stores like Walmart, Kohl’s, Forever 21, H&M, Hot Topic and Target, ... continue reading...
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