Lead In Bounce Houses

Hybrivet System’s blog pointed me to one of the more sickening examples of lead contamination. Bounce houses. My own son loves these symbols of American summer birthday parties. Problem is that the 800 pound gorilla (in Texas we call such a thing hoss) of the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organizations found lead in our beloved childhood summer activities. On August 11th, 2010 the Center for Environmental Health announced a lawsuit to stop the sale of bounces houses that contain lead. These inflatable gems were found to contain 70 times the federal limit for lead in children’s products under the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act. I was more amazed to find that there is any acceptable limit for a child’s product to contain lead.
Excuse my rant for a moment but how would the federal government react if a Chinese manufacturers employee were to come here, enter a toy store and add poison to a toy? Would they not arrest that person? Three words…. Pitchforks and touches. How is this any different? The end result is the same.

Congratulations to the Center for Environmental Health. My son and every other parent thanks you. Donate, as Check4Lead.com has, to this amazing organization.

Center for Environmental Health

Related posts

• No related posts.

Comments RSS Both comments and pings are currently closed.