Sources of lead include toys made in China and
coated with lead paint, and crawling around on the floor where shoes drag in lead pollution from outside.
If that is really the justification — the enoromous costs incurred by families and a society when a child is poisoned — than our efforts are better spent addressing the much more significant cause of childhood lead poisoning — older housing and buildings
coated with lead paint.
Not exact matches
Lead paint coating the walls in older homes has likely been
painted over, perhaps
with several layers of
paint.
Metal cages
with paint (must be
lead - free) or epoxy
coating can be used, but care must be taken that birds do not pick off the
coating and ingest it.
It is possible to encapsulate these eggs and cysts
with a new
coat of
paint on paintable surfaces (the same techniques used for asbestos and
lead paint).
Asbestos,
lead paint, mercury fillings, teflon
coatings, red dye, MPR II emissions, hair bleach, aspartame, phenylketonurics, phenylalanine, etc. the list is varied and long but I won't bother you
with all the varied products over the years that people have introduced to society claiming that they were not only safe but sometimes even claiming that they were good for you, and consumers not only used the products but were detrimentally affected by the products.
In addition, some manufacturers still manufacture products — including children's toys — that are
coated with lead - based
paint.
Others are
coated with lead - containing
paint that can poison a child and cause brain damage, organ damage, or even death.
Caron milk
paints all the chairs herself
with two
coats of Old Fashioned Milk Paint which is non-toxic when dried, biodegradable and
lead free, making it safe for pets, children, and the enviroment.