Now it's LEAD in Chinese Made Halloween Costumes!

Stop buying Made in China!

Why are we allowing this garbage to be imported in the first place and why are the Americans so stupid to buy anything with a "Made in China" label? Like Trump said a 25% tax on all Chinese imports...

AP 10/16/2012



A shipment of children's pirate costumes en-route from China to a distributor in Seattle will never make it to store shelves.
Customs and Border Protection Officers and Consumer Product Safety Investigators were waiting for the shipment coming from a manufacturer with a bad reputation.

They tested the Halloween costumes and found lead levels in the costumes' buttons that are 11 times the legal limit.

In all, agents seized 229 cartons of 1,371 costumes.

All of them will be destroyed. (how about recycling them? Oh, thats right - there are too toxic!)

The shipments were valued at more than $10,000.

Lead can poison developing brains, and these costumes are marketed for young girls.

Inspectors all over the country will now pull any shipments of the costumes from any port where they may have been sent.

Workers from the two agencies are constantly on the lookout for
dangerous toys, whether it be from lead, another toxin or breakable
parts that can choke a child.

"I will do this ten times," said CPSC Investigator Craig Mabie as he
dropped a plastic toy that broke into several pieces when it hit the
floor.

Since none of the pieces were small enough to it into a simulated child's throat, that toy passed the test.

It also passed a scanner test that can instantly detect dangerous levels of lead and other toxins.

The agencies are on guard this time of year because so many Halloween
and Christmas toys are coming in from producers around the world.

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In a related story China is poisoning it's OWN children!:

When YOU buy a Chinese product you are supporting a country with conscience and NO environmental laws. You dollars are directly contributing to poisoning people, animals and the environment in China. Those cheap Chinese sunglasses you just bought - toxic vinyl chloride dumped into a river by the company that made them!

(SHANGHAI) — Millions of Chinese children
suffer from lead poisoning despite a crackdown on contamination, and
local officials are systematically withholding the right to medical
testing to cover up the problem, a rights group alleges.

New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a report Wednesday that
authorities often are depriving victims of needed testing, treatment and
prevention. It also says the government has failed to force polluting
factories to close and clean up contamination despite its high-profile
effort to crack down on heavy metals pollution.
(See the world's most polluted places.)

"Children with dangerously high levels of lead in their blood are
being refused treatment and returned home to contaminated houses in
polluted villages," said Joe Amon, health and human rights director at
Human Rights Watch.

Officials at China's ministries of health, work safety and environmental protection declined to comment on the allegations.
(See how 12 million tons of rice was contaminated by heavy metal in China.)

China has launched a campaign to crack down on poisoning by heavy
metals such as lead and to clean up contamination. Hundreds of lead-acid
battery factories were closed in eastern China's Zhejiang province
after several major pollution cases were spotlighted by state-run media.

In the most recently reported case, more than 600 people, including
103 children, were reported sickened from tinfoil processing workshops
in the Zhejiang town of Yangxunqiao. All the children and 26 adults were
suffering from severe lead poisoning, the official Xinhua News Agency
reported.

In detailed interviews in heavily contaminated villages in four
provinces — Hunan, Henan, Yunnan and Shaanxi — Human Rights Watch's
researchers found authorities were systematically seeking to silence
those who sought help or spoke out, Amon said in a phone interview.

The report cites scores of parents and other relatives of sick
children who said they were barred from getting tested, refused test
results or given apparently distorted readings. The researchers
guaranteed anonymity to their sources to protect them from possible
retaliation.

"If there's really going to be attention and response to the sources
of the lead poisoning there needs to be a way the Chinese people can
bring the issue up to local officials or journalists, without facing
intimidation, harassment and detention," he said.

The group estimates that millions of children suffer from lead poisoning.

There are no official figures on the exact extent of the problem in
China, despite national data on other major public health threats such
as tuberculosis and hepatitis. But reports by medical experts say a
majority of children in many regions have high blood lead levels.

Lead poisoning can damage the nervous, muscular and reproductive
systems. Children are particularly at risk because their bodies absorb
up to half of what they are exposed to in the environment, far more than
adults' will. Exposure can disable them for life.

"Chinese experts are saying lead is one of the leading causes of
pediatric health problems," Amon said. "The government needs to provide
treatment and make sure children aren't immediately re-exposed to toxic
levels of lead."

Banning leaded gasoline in the late 1990s helped China to reduce one
of its biggest sources of lead poisoning. But an explosion in production
of cars, electric scooters and electronics has driven soaring demand
for batteries, while environmental controls on production and recycling
of products containing lead are laxly enforced.

"The volume is unprecedented," said Ma Jun, director of the Institute
of Public & Environmental Affairs, a non-governmental group in
Beijing. "If all the manufacturing could follow legal requirements the
problem should not be so bad but unfortunately a large number of
factories cannot even meet the legal requirements."

Many parents interviewed for the Human Rights Watch report said that
even when their children were confirmed to have dangerously high levels
of lead in their blood, doctors just advised them to give their children
milk or certain types of foods.

"It's really about educating people and not giving them false
information, whether its blood lead testing or not telling people that
it can be cured by eating apples and garlic, which is just false," Amon
said