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Please read the following carefully if you purchased children's costume jewelry made in China and sold by WalMart, Claire's or other regional retail chains...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_on_he_me/us_cadmium_jewelry
Due to the lead bans, Chinese manufacturers have been substituting CADMIUM in their mixes of metals. There is NOTHING good about Cadmium-there is no percentage that is safe, but the AP noted in it's testing that the highest levels of Cadmium were found in Princess and the Frog jewelry sold at WalMart in November and December of 2009. There were some pieces from Claire's that were also found to have an equivilent amount.
"Some of the most troubling test results were for bracelet charms sold at Walmart, at the jewelry chain Claire's and at a dollar store. High amounts of cadmium also were detected in "The Princess and The Frog" movie-themed pendants.
"There's nothing positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7.
Jewelry industry veterans in China say cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years. Zinc, the metal most cited as a replacement for lead in imported jewelry being sold in the United States, is a much safer and nontoxic alternative. But the jewelry tests conducted for AP, along with test findings showing a growing presence of cadmium in other children's products, demonstrate that the safety threat from cadmium is being exported."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_on_he_me/us_cadmium_jewelry
Due to the lead bans, Chinese manufacturers have been substituting CADMIUM in their mixes of metals. There is NOTHING good about Cadmium-there is no percentage that is safe, but the AP noted in it's testing that the highest levels of Cadmium were found in Princess and the Frog jewelry sold at WalMart in November and December of 2009. There were some pieces from Claire's that were also found to have an equivilent amount.
"Some of the most troubling test results were for bracelet charms sold at Walmart, at the jewelry chain Claire's and at a dollar store. High amounts of cadmium also were detected in "The Princess and The Frog" movie-themed pendants.
"There's nothing positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison," said Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. On the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous substances in the environment, cadmium ranks No. 7.
Jewelry industry veterans in China say cadmium has been used in domestic products there for years. Zinc, the metal most cited as a replacement for lead in imported jewelry being sold in the United States, is a much safer and nontoxic alternative. But the jewelry tests conducted for AP, along with test findings showing a growing presence of cadmium in other children's products, demonstrate that the safety threat from cadmium is being exported."