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Greenpace detects heavy metals in toys
posted on: Dec 12 2011 7:29 by RDugey. Viewed 24 times.
About 30 percent of Chinese toys studied by Greenpeace in a recent research have shown high levels of heavy metals, which can be very harmful to the health of children, according to a study published by the Organization environmental.
In the study, presented at Hong Kong and which echoes the local newspaper "South China Morning Post" reveals for example that a 10 per cent of the investigated toys exceed the levels of lead permitted by the standards of national.
Research and development responsible for Greenpeace was acquired about half thousand toys in Hong Kong and other four major Chinese cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Wuhan) and analyzed them by x-ray X.
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used equipment could detect six metals (antimony, arsenic, cadmium, chromium, lead and mercury) known for its toxicity and that can have very harmful effects on health if it u000athey occur in amounts excessive.
According to the study, found for example one of the toys tested had levels of lead 200 times higher than allowed by the Chinese health authorities or 1,200 times higher than the standards of USA.
These toys not only contaminated can affect children when they are touched or will lead them to the mouth, "but that can affect the body through the air," said introducing the Studio responsible for the campaign, Ada Kong Cheuk-san.
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