Jeff Weidenhamer, professor of chemistry at Ashland University, holds up a charm that he is testing for cadmium in Ashland, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) Why is there cadmium in childrens jewelry made in China and sold in North America?
A 2010 Associated Press investigation suggests it is because lead is heavily regulated in the United States under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. As a result, factories are substituting lead with cadmium — a metal that is easy to work with and cheap because prices on the world market have tumbled. While the U.S. consumer product law also contains the first explicit regulation of cadmium, the standards are significantly less strict than for lead and apply only to painted toys, not jewelry.
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