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Showing posts with label Cd. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cd. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Cadmium in Jewelry

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (Commission or CPSC) has received a petition requesting standards restricting cadmium in children's products, especially toy metal jewelry.

The Empire State Consumer Project, Sierra Club, Center for Environmental Health, and Rochesterians Against the Misuse of Pesticides (petitioners)submitted a petition stating that the Commission should issue regulations to ban cadmium in all toy jewelry under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA), 15 U.S.C. 1261 et seq. Specifically, petitioners request that the Commission adopt regulations declaring that any toy metal jewelry containing