Call made for safer products
By
Chris McGann
Seattle PI
September 28, 2007
Seattle PI Article on Toy Testing event at the legislature on 9-27-07.
OLYMPIA -- On the outside a bright red plastic Slinky and a happy yellow penguin look like a child's delight.
But zap them with an X-ray fluorescence analyzer and a scarier picture emerges.
All too often traces of lead, polyvinyl chloride and other toxic elements appear on the readout.
