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09-17-2007, 01:37 PM | #1 |
Tiny Dog Big Heart Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Texas
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| Lead And Other Metals Found In Wal-Mart Pet Toys Expertox, a Texas lab, has found elevated levels of lead, chromium, and cadmium in two Chinese-made pet toys sold at Wal-Mart. But two veterinarians said the levels found by the lab are not a health risk to cats and dogs. The lab was hired by ConsumerAffairs.com to test two dog toys and two cat toys for heavy metals and other toxins. A dog chew toy, a green monster, tested positive for what the lab categorizes as high levels of lead and chromium. The lab detected lead levels of 907.4 micrograms per kilogram (almost one part per million). Chromium was found at levels of 334.9 micrograms per kilogram. Levels of cadmium, arsenic and mercury were also found in the green monster toy. The lab said with that kind of concentration, if a dog puts the toy in his mouth and chews or licks it, he is being exposed to a good amount of lead and runs the risk of metal toxicity that may shorten his life. Expertox said a cloth catnip toy also tested positive for a �tremendous amount� of the toxic metal cadmium. The levels of cadmium found were 236 micrograms per kilogram. Two other Wal-Mart pet toys were analyzed, a cloth hedgehog for dogs and a plastic dumbbell toy for cats. Expertox found cadmium in those two pet toys, but the lab toxicologist said the levels found were similar to the amount in one cigarette and not considered significant. Read the rest of the article at: http://www.itchmo.com/expertox-finds-lead-other-toxins-in-wal-mart-pet-toys-2877
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09-17-2007, 01:43 PM | #2 |
I Love My Yorkies Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Indianapolis, Indiana
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| Thanks for sharing. I dont trust anything that comes from China these days
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09-17-2007, 02:06 PM | #3 |
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| Scary! Thanks for sharing!
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09-17-2007, 02:51 PM | #4 | |
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How do the Chinese survive with all this lead in their lives? | |
09-17-2007, 03:01 PM | #5 |
Gizzy & Kandi spoil me Donating Member Join Date: May 2007 Location: Waco, Texas
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| Unfortunately, I saw this coming. So sad. And they only tested two toys? Oh boy, here we go again.
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09-17-2007, 03:20 PM | #6 |
Tiny Dog Big Heart Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Texas
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| That was only the fabric toys. They others were worse!
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09-17-2007, 03:21 PM | #7 | |
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You sure did!
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09-17-2007, 04:46 PM | #8 |
My hairy-legged girls Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: lompoc, ca.
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| Looks like we start making the toys too! Mine won't play with them but I buy tons for gifts and such. I do agree that maybe we shouldn't buy anything else made in China. So sad. |
09-17-2007, 04:55 PM | #9 |
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| Thanks for posting this. I just received it via an "itchmo" alert, and was about to do the same thing. I am just getting angrier and angrier over these tainted products coming out of China. Seriously, when are we going to see SEVERE repercussions/restrictions coming out of all of this??? Do these manufacturers have NO twinge of conscience whatsoever????? They seem to entitle themselves to poison both children, adults and animals alike (as long as they could get away with it)!!
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09-17-2007, 05:01 PM | #10 |
Wee Winston Wiggles Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Kewanee, Illinois
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| I'd suggest everybody check their babies toys...MANY...bought at Pet Stores were also made in China, not just Walmart. Believe me, I am no fan of Walmart, but I really thought the more expensive toys bought at PetsMart or Pet Co would be safer...still "Made In China"...I'm disgusted.
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09-17-2007, 05:17 PM | #11 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Chicago Suburbs
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| I can't even find many toys made in the USA. I can find some not made in China, but most are made in China and the rest are made elsewhere. One would hope that the higher end products would have quality standards that need to be met. Most of the problem we are hearing about are coming from the 99c toys at walmart, the baby bibs from the $1 store... I agree it could happen anywhere, but I despise Walmart so that makes me even more mad.
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09-17-2007, 05:38 PM | #12 |
Wee Winston Wiggles Donating Member Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Kewanee, Illinois
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| If you want to hear something I really have a problem with is...they were handing out small American flags at our local Labor Day parade...each one proudly marked "MADE IN CHINA"!!! I about puked...
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09-17-2007, 08:49 PM | #13 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange County, California
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| I hear you
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