Starting your holiday shopping this week? The LAST thing you want to be giving the children and babies on your list is dangerous chemicals like lead and arsenic. Yet, when the Ecology Center, a Michigan-based nonprofit, tested over 1,500 popular children’s toys for lead, cadmium, arsenic, PVC and other harmful chemicals, they found that one in three toys tested were found to contain “medium” or “high” levels of chemicals of concern. Scary, right? But knowledge truly is power in this case. Before you give a child a toy this holiday season, search the HealthyToys database for its chemical test results:
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