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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."
Write Jen a letter asking who the other tipster was.... Jennifer Taggart
2317 Warmouth St.
San Pedro, California 90732
United States
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http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/reports/2010plan.pdf
and still they miss this
Maybe if they really DID have a two trillion dollar budget, they could afford to test every single object ever sold anywhere in the US.
Until then, buy yourself a $30k x-ray gun and trust nobody.
You invalidated your own statement and didn't even know it. Here, let me show you the utility of basic reading comprehension.
The point was, the federal budget is around $2 trillion. In case you find that confusing, this means more than just the one agency called the CPSC. See how the GP never once claimed that the CPSC alone gets that $2 trillion all to itself? Good, so now you realize you aren't actually contradicting the GP and certainly aren't pointing out anything useful. You should have known that since the CPSC's $107 million budget that you mentioned yourself is less than $2 trillion. That should have been your cue to notice that maybe you misunderstood the GP and are about to make a completely redundant post. But that'd be far too sensical.
The point the GP was making, my dear Special Education student, was that CPSC is such a low priority for the feds that it only receives a small share of that total $2 trillion budget. For comparison, the trillion dollars given to bail out banks is almost 9,346 times more money than what we spend towards making sure people don't get poisoned by defective products. Therefore, public safety is no longer the number one concern of our government. THAT was the point.
Most voters think like you do. Therefore we have the government we know today. See the connection?
if they were smart .....
If you were smart, you would use proper sentence structure. Those who are smart knows how to properly capitalize and punctuate his or her sentence. Since you have done neither that means you are not a smart troll, but a stupid troll. The advice for a stupid troll like you is to either get an education, or kill yourself if you are not able to get that education. The choice is yours.