In recent months, millions of toys have been recalled because of their brightly colored — and very toxic — lead paint.
The nonhunting majority also has a right to be furious about the toxic lead unleashed into its environment by hunting.
China was hit by a wave of product recalls this year involving everything from tainted toothpaste and contaminated pet food ingredients to toys coated with toxic lead paint.
The Rev. Darius Pridgen leads a 3,000-member 3,000-memberffalo that sits achurchthe street from one of the state's most toxin lead dumps.
The walls are crumbling, the floors falling through, the highly toxic lead paint is peeling, there's asbestos … It's possibly not what you would call child-friendly.
The plant, which recycled about 40,000 lead acid batteries a day, had been discharging toxic lead into the environment over many years.
The toy industry has been rocked this year by a series of recalls involving millions of toys made in China, many of which were found to contain high levels of toxic lead paint.
But, even after the floor was roped off because of fears about toxic lead dust in the air, people still flocked to see the 100m porcelain seeds from the safety of the Turbine Hall bridge.
Zhang Shuhong, a 52-year-old businessman, had apparently committed suicide, just days after Mattel blamed his company, Lee Der Industrial, in Foshan, in southern China, for the recall of one million toys coated in toxic lead paint.
The 35-member crew has been working day and night to remove toxic lead paint, perform a checkup on the bridge's steel interior and generally ensure that Staten Islanders enjoy a safe passage for many decades to come.
The over-the-transom response to my article in Thursday's paper on the use of fish bones to neutralize toxic lead in residential yards was swift, and worthy of response here.
