McDonald's, Cadmium, and Thermo Electron Niton Guns

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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Re:How did the US government miss this?

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Good, so now you realize you aren't actually contradicting the GP

No shit!

and certainly aren't pointing out anything useful

You invalidated your own statement and didn't even know it. You used the numbers I cited from the budget in your attempt to flame me, therefore my post with the CPSC budget was useful, at least to trolls like you. Maybe if the GP had actually posted the CPSC budget numbers, my post would have been redundant.