A few days ago we learned that here were certain vinyl baby bibs sold at Toys “R” Us stores that appeared to be contaminated with lead according to laboratory tests. This event making these inexpensive bibs another example of a poor China import product that may be a health hazard to our children.
The vinyl bibs in question feature illustrations of baseball bats and soccer balls and Disney's Winnie the Pooh characters, were sold for less than $5 each under store brand labels, including "Especially for Baby" and "Koala Baby".
Recent tests financed by the Center for Environmental Health of Oakland, California, found lead as high as three times the level allowed in paint in several styles of the bibs purchased from both the Toys “R” Us and Babies “R” Us stores in California.
Now, we hear that Toys “R” Us has halted the sale of vinyl baby bibs at its stores nationwide yesterday, August 17th, and has offered their customers refunds on perhaps more than a million bibs after continued tests confirmed that at least some of the Chinese-made items are contaminated with lead.
This is scary folks! Again, the contaminated bibs were marketed under the "Koala Baby", "Especially for Baby" and Disney Baby labels and manufactured for the company by Hamco Baby Products.
Please keep an eye out when placing bids for items such as these on ebay. I know ebay has made the issue known to us, it's buyers and sellers, but it never hurts to keep things like this going and being posted so the few that do not know will find out. Who knows what else they will find as more testing is performed, but this is just another lesson to always keep an eye out especially when it comes to our kids.
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