Elmo Cards and Go Diego Go Backpacks Make the “10 Toys With Most Lead List”
December 5th 2007 by Dr.MOZ in Recalls, Dangerous Toys, Family Safety
To stay with today’s safe toy focus, HealthyToys.org (Washington Toxins Coalition and the Ecology Group) has released their 10 Toys with Most Lead list. The environmental groups tested over 1,200 toys that haven’t been recalled (most of which are on the market) and found that 35% contained lead. Many of these have levels far above federal safety standards, but their presence doesn’t necessarily mean that there is direct exposure.
I’ll show you the first 8 below, but visit their list for the remaining 2 and a collection of other harmful chemicals found in other toys including: Bromine, Antimony, Mercury, and Arsenic.
Toys with Most Lead Based on XRF testing by HealthyToys.org
- Brush Your Teeth! Robot (level = 23,788 PPM)
- Dinner Party Tea Set (level = 12,635 PPM)
- Starletz Large Ceramic Tea Set (level = 10,062 PPM)
- Elmo’s Take-Along Card Games (level = 9,997 PPM)
- Bugs Backpack / Bag (level = 7,132 PPM)
- My Pasture Play Set (level = 6,733 PPM)
- Shoe, Style 443559 (level = 5,197 PPM)
- Go Diego Go Backpack (level = 4,608 PPM)
Visit HealthyToys.org today and don’t forget to use their product search to find reports on your children’s favorite toys.
Have fun and stay healthy,
Dr.MOZ
December 6th, 2007 at 8:50 am
Thanks for the info doc! I heard about lead in the Diego backpack and discovered your blog on a search. The post about the lead scanner was a good one too.
January 22nd, 2008 at 11:16 am
the go diego go back-pac… which one is it that has excessive lead in it… my son has the “go diego go back pac rescue of the red-eyed tree frog”… i have put it away… i don’t know if i should let him have it or not because i don’t know if it is one of the recall products… i have searched on the web trying to find info and i am unable to find one that has a pic or something to tell me which one it is