<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/e6fc74fe-4324-467c-b09b-508854886483/F4F1A5B1-86CA-4EA4-BA43-BE3A47F436DF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html" href="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html" style="font-size: 11px;">wbztv.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html">In February a new federal law banned the sale of children's products with more than 600 parts per million of lead. In August the limit dropped to 300 parts per million. That's still higher than the 40 parts per million the American Academy of Pediatrics believes is safe.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html">The law requires manufacturers to have a third-party lab test toys before they can be sold, but that part of the law was put on hold until next year, sparking criticism over enforcement. </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html">"They don't really know if lead or phthalates are in their products, so we don't know either," said Spark. Her daughters have a playroom full of toys that she can only hope are free from lead and other toxic chemicals.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html">It's hard to know what's in products," said Spark. "In fact, I think it's impossible to know."</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/local/lead.toys.toxic.2.1243032.html">The environmental watchdog group <A target="_blank" href="http://www.healthystuff.org/">Healthystuff.org </A>recently tested hundreds of consumer products and found unsafe levels of lead and other toxic chemicals in everything from tennis balls to pet supplies.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F4F1A5B1-86CA-4EA4-BA43-BE3A47F436DF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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