Get the Lead Out!
" Even the smallest amount of lead is poisonous to children, and we must do everything in our power to eliminate it from all the products we make and all the homes we live in." -- Dr. Sean Palfrey, medical director of the Boston Lead Poisoning Prevention Program and member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
MPHA and the Alliance for a Healthy Tomorrow are continuing their campaign to prohibit lead in toys and other children's products. The Department of Public Health (DPH) has proposed a regulation banning dangerous levels of lead in just toy jewelry. However, the coalition, joined by the Massachusetts Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, is calling upon DPH to ban the sale of all products intended for use by children under 12 which contain more than trace amounts of lead.
TAKE ACTION
Click here to sign our on-line petition in support of expanded lead regulations.
Click here to sign our on-line petition in support of expanded lead regulations.
For more information, or to get involved, please contact Eric Weltman at MPHA: 617-524-6696, ext. 111; eweltman@mphaweb.org .
Added on December 16, 2007 by formasspta
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