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Esther Moderator
Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 1919 Location: ID Spudville
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:09 am Post subject: Recall for lead on textiles |
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Well, it's happened. A recall of doll clothing sets with excessive lead in the surface paints on the fabric. I want to know where the fabric came from. The recall info only says the whole set came from Indonesia. |
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Vesta Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:18 am Post subject: |
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Those are roller printed. Who wants to bet the fabric's from China? And if they were recalled, that means the lead was higher than 600 ppm, right? I wonder how much higher. |
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J C Sprowls
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 2004
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: |
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Yeah... give us some context, please.
Not you... the FCPSC
*yes, that's deliberate |
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annika Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:30 am Post subject: |
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It's not the fabric, right, it's the paint, though? This is the type where the paint is really sitting on top of the fabric, isn't it, not like screenprinting? |
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J C Sprowls
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 2004
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 12:13 pm Post subject: |
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It is screen printed - it's just done with a rolling barrel of screens. There are a lot of formats that screen printing can take - it's pretty overwhelming.
The ink/paint used in the screen printing process contains more than 6 PPM of lead, so the CPSC enforced a recall of this product. |
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annika Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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J C Sprowls wrote: |
It is screen printed - it's just done with a rolling barrel of screens. There are a lot of formats that screen printing can take - it's pretty overwhelming.
The ink/paint used in the screen printing process contains more than 6 PPM of lead, so the CPSC enforced a recall of this product. |
rolling barrels of screens, I'm having a hard time visualizing, lol. My knowledge of screenprinting is limited to the handdone variety and I've seen those octopus arm screenprinting machines in photos. Anyway, I assume you meant 600 ppm, that is the current limit right? 300 ppm in February? |
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J C Sprowls
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 2004
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject: |
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Um... yeah 600PPM
Which... is still a very small amount. If you don't have a well, the water board should send you a report every year about the quality of water in the reservoirs. It's an interesting read.
I'm trying to locate my report from last year so I can finalize my letter to the Atty General. I basically want to point out that we're ingesting worse things than we're wearing. |
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annika Guest
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Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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very interesting point. please do post here when you find it. |
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Jennifer Taggart Guest
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: Limits for lead paint - correction |
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600 ppm for lead in paints/coatings; drops to 90 ppm in August 2009. |
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Eric H Site Admin
Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Posts: 205 Location: NM Albuquerque
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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J C Sprowls wrote: |
If you don't have a well, the water board should send you a report every year about the quality of water in the reservoirs. It's an interesting read.
I'm trying to locate my report from last year |
If you can't find it and especially if you can't find it online, then point out that whereas your freakin' documentation has to be easily accessible whenever some CPSCrat wants to see it, their documentation is harder to find than an honest politician. |
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J C Sprowls
Joined: 25 Mar 2006 Posts: 2004
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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their documentation is harder to find than an honest politician. |
Ha! True, that! |
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Esther Moderator
Joined: 17 Mar 2006 Posts: 1919 Location: ID Spudville
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Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 2:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ya know, this is one of the biggest flaws with the CPSC. I don't know. I can understand businesses wanting to protect their sources and all. But if a problem does show up, all we get is a recall notice. We don't get any context or explanation of what happened. None of us are really given a chance to fix the problem or even what to look for. In this case there was excess lead in the surface paint. The surface paint of what part? What paint was used? What could be used instead? |
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