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Call made for safer products
Seattle PI Article on Toy Testing event at the legislature on 9-27-07.
By Chris McGann
Seattle PI
September 28, 2007
OLYMPIA -- On the outside a bright red plastic Slinky and a happy yellow penguin look like a child's delight.
But zap them with an X-ray fluorescence analyzer and a scarier picture emerges.
All too often traces of lead, polyvinyl chloride and other toxic elements appear on the readout.
