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.
