CHINA JEWELRY

August 28, 2007

The issue of hazardous materials contained in the original production of China is now blows back. This time the jewelry for children suspected to contain harmful compounds, cadmium. 
 
In a lab test commissioned by the Associated Press, found cadmium contained in children's jewelry is approximately 91 percent of the total weight of jewels. Besides cadmium, the results of lab tests also found other hazardous materials that could melt cadmium. It is feared that if the jewelry made in China label is used then the children will give harmful effects. 
 
Cadmium is known as lead very bad influence for children's health. This dangerous compounds known to be harmful to brain development in children. Suffice it to suck or bite even continuously, the children immediately ascertained cadmium contaminated. 
 
"Nothing good of cadmium as toxic," said an expert from the Center for cadmium and the U.S. Disease Control (CDC) Bruce A Fowler. Fowler also added that if the 275 list of most dangerous chemicals released CDC, cadmium ranked seventh. 
To prove the cadmium is very dangerous for children The Associated Press did a lab test on 103 pieces of jewelry purchased in the area of New York, Ohio, Texas and California. The result was surprising. Approximately 12 percent of the jewelry was found to contain cadmium at least about 10 percent. 

August 23, 2007

  1. Worse, jewelry for children has been circulated widely in the United States (U.S.). Many of China's jewelry production is sold freely in retail stores like Walmart. 

    While the jewelry industry in China is known to use cadmium for many years. The question of local researchers is why materials such as zinc are considered more environmentally friendly it is not used? 

    With the research initiated by the Associated Press was among the observers assessing health, the use of cadmium prove the existence of the health threat of imported goods come from China. The reason, the use of cadmium is suspected also contained in products other China. 

    There is no explanation of exactly why the jewelry industry in China shifted children using cadmium. The use of cadmium may be subject to the rules of the Protection Act for Consumer Products in 2008. The Act prohibits the use of lead in products for children from China who entered the United States. 

    Banned due to lead, then the producers in China asked to find a replacement for lead. The use of cadmium either because a cheaper price in the market.

 

 

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