Toxic toys

Your child and children do not have money around you, and we do everything we can to make them safe and healthy. to educate parents and caregivers for children's safety and common sense in deciding what is healthy and harmful to a child. Let's take a quick test. Want your children play in a yard, you know what could cause them harm? Never! How about a nutrition plan is the home of boots dirty, fingerprints and microbes? Of course not. WouldLet your child's play with the latest popular plastic toys, eat from a bowl of glazed ceramic, or use a teething ring for easy chewing gum pain during teething? If you said yes, you might want to consider how this could lead to big problems - read even death - in your child.

What are the toxic toys?

The term "toxic toys" refers to a subset of toys in the last few years have been found to contain high levels of harmful chemicals. These chemicals are present in each stage of the process are copied to the masses, the same shapes, appliance parts, through the paint and adhesives on the surface of toys used to decorate it. Can the warning "Harmful if swallowed" warning should not only cover a choking hazard.

Due to rising cost of production in the world, some links made to save the manufacturer time and money, resulting in the production of These toxic toys. The main reason for the toxicity of toxicToys> is the presence of harmful chemicals like lead, phthalates and bisphenol A or BPA.

People are exposed to these chemicals on a daily basis - car interiors, shower curtains, glazed ceramics, batteries and much more. Our bodies are usually able to detoxify themselves, with little or no side effects. But as in most cases, infants and children are not equipped to do this while still in the development of all necessary means to fight the invading antigens and harmfultheir systems. Let 's closer to what types of damage threatens the health and welfare of children.

Lead - Friend or Foe?

Long seen as an essential metal, one of the first in North America reduced the lead most useful contribution to modern innovation was its use in the manufacture of lead batteries. It was used as welding, as well as plumbing and its vibration damping propertiesuseful in heavy-duty metal construction. He has composed many derivatives, one of which is known as white lead, a pigment in paints, fillers and ceramics. This has been widely used in house paints. High levels of lead in soil are also common, especially near roads and highways, or where it occurred with the construction of lead paint chips and penetrated into the ground.

It 'been known for decades that lead paint, dangerous for all people, especially children. WhenLead-paint chips, color chips can find their way into the hands of curious and mouth, and the sweet taste of the connection moves to register the child. The structure of lead in the body from lead poisoning.

Facts about lead poisoning

Lead is a neurotoxin when they enter the human body, so that all types of defects. Children are particularly vulnerable because their nervous system not yet fully developed. Since they are similar in their charge andSize, replace the ions of lead, iron, zinc and calcium ions overlap in many biochemical pathways. When these ions are replaced by bringing in some enzymes, are activities such as growth and behavior regulation are concerned. Since calcium plays an important role in the function of neurotransmitters, the vehicles used by the brain to transmit signals through the body, the interruption causes major neurological defects, including central nervous system disorders such as wrist drop, learning disabilities, speech andLanguage deficiencies.

Lead was also found to cause the normal biochemistry in the kidney, brain and bone caused by excessive production of some proteins, whose function is to bind specifically to interfere with other molecules. The damaged bone and teeth of production, learning difficulties and reduced mental performance, including renal failure.

A recovery of lead-based paint in recent years has found the toxic toys manufactured outside the United States, and the levels of lead in ourChildren are growing. The Centers for Disease Control has released figures which are 6% of children 1-2 years old toxic levels of lead in blood. Many believe that this is a conservative estimate, and this number will increase.

Phthalates and BPA

Many innovations have been in the world of plastics made in recent decades, and we consumers have benefited a lot. However, the magic of these plastics facilities and methods used to produce the desired results lefta stream of questions about the effects of these chemicals to the recipient - ie children.

Phthalates are the types of plastics in a way that maintains the strength and elasticity, while allowing flexibility fact. Applications include Teethers, pacifiers, plastic toys and many flexible on the market. Common types of phthalates dibutyl phthalate (DBP), diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP). Phthalates are linked to other materials such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC to soften)material. It was found that nearly 40% of phthalates from the finished product when it is run by children, many of these materials for chewing and sucking Leach.

BPA or Bisphenol A has been widely used equipment in the production of plastic bottles - including baby bottles, electronics, automotive parts, compact discs, in resealable plastic bags and medicine, and yes - plastic toys. The National Institutes of Health ( NIH) has conducted studies on animalssuggest that, once ingested, BPA may imitate estrogen and other hormones.

Phthalates have been found, with more serious problems in fetal development and early childhood development. Dr. Shanna Swan, director of the Center for Reproduction of epidemiology at the University of Rochester School of Medicine in New York, conducted a study in which urine samples of 134 pregnant women from different areas in the U.S. were tested for the presence of phthalates. Found a correlation between theWomen, the highest levels of phthalates in urine, the birth of children with reduced anogenital distance (AGD) announced - had reduced this distance between the anus and the scrotum is an important indicator of lower levels of testosterone. Similar studies have found correlations between the presence of phthalates in pregnant women and births of boys with hypospadias, an abnormal condition in men, in which the urethra opens on the underside of the penis. Studies have also linkedPhthalates in pregnancy, childhood and youth sexual development was interrupted because of the disability of testosterone production, reduced sperm count, worsening of allergies and premature breast development in young women.

The NIH issued a report April 14, 2008 can be closed, that the concern that fetuses, infants and children exposed to BPA have an increased risk of early puberty and prostate and breast. Other studies have found correlations betweenBPA and promote changes in pancreatic insulin resistance, abnormal thyroid regulation, the structural damage of the brain and hyperactivity, to name a few.

What is being done?

The recent increase in the presence of these substances in children causes a stir, both for consumer safety and health. It was the year fell 67% in toxic toys containing lead, there, and other chemicals to be done by the 2007th

The legislation has been slow to ban BPAand phthalates from production and will be conducted as more studies, more research is whether the danger is real - it is much more shielded than that because the producers themselves, not to interrupt a lobby of inexpensive ingredients to make the their products. In August 2008, then President Bush signed into law the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CISP), which relates the concerns of imports of toxic toys. Law of the State is successful in Californiathe way in banning products containing phthalates have come into force in January 2009. Unfortunately, there is the fine print, and in much of the legislation, the requirement that manufacturers can produce toxic chemicals, while not containing toys, They can sell Their inventory already flooding the market with prices Reduced toxic toys consumers may have a higher risk of purchase, given the economic crisis.

UsA number of producers who have joined the cause in an effort to ensure the manufacture of products to promote. Disney and Mattel are two major producers who have not sworn DEHP produce toxic toys public commitments expire toys and products included in it. Toys R Us and Wal-Mart decided not to sell children's products containing phthalates.

How do I know if I have a toxic toy?

To say the only way to test is 100%have the toy tested for the presence of these chemicals. Fortunately, this test should be done with lots of toys and lists are available. You can also call lists and messages. New toys according to the labels found on packaging states that the government test standards. The United States has higher limits of some foreign countries such as China, thus reducing the risk of buying American to buy toxic toys.

What is the greater awareness ofthese hazardous chemicals, the hope is that the presence of toxic toys Time goes by to be reduced. The law is catching up, and refute scientific theories about the safety of these chemicals. For the safety of all infants and children, it is our duty to remain vigilant in efforts to suspend activities related to production of toxic toys and plastics.