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McDonald's, Cadmium, and Thermo Electron Niton Guns

Posted by timothy on from the got-one-on-my-swiss-army-knife dept.

An anonymous reader writes, snipping from a story at NPR: "'How did the Consumer Products Safety Commission find out that cadmium, a toxic metal, was present on millions of Shrek drinking glasses now being recalled by McDonald's? Well, an anonymous person with access to some pretty slick testing equipment tipped off Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) about the problem. Her office confirmed that somebody using a Thermo Electron Niton XRF testing gun found a lot of cadmium, sometimes used in yellow pigments, on the surface of the glasses. The source overnighted glasses to Speier's office last week, which then turned over the test results and specimens to the CPSC. ... By law, no more than 75 parts per million of cadmium is supposed to be present in paint on kids toys. Speier's office said the amount found on the glasses was quite a bit higher than that.' Seems like the answer to a previous question about at-home science — this blogger seems to have been one of the anonymous sources."

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  1. Just in Time! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    More fake news from anonymous testers on corporations violating standards.
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    How about Larry Silverstein collecting insurance for his building being demolished by Demolition Crews in the same day the World Trade Center Towers were supposedly non-demolished by Passenger jets full of non-smelting Jet Fuel? I know Jet Fuel is just enhanced Diesel that can't smelt iron because it burns too low of temperature, it just sounds more dangerous when I say Jet Fuel instead.

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