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Default OT - Lead found in popular Hannah Montana items

On Mar 20, 7:53 pm, F. George McDuffee gmcduf...@mcduffee-
associates.us wrote:
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 19:34:17 -0700, Gunner Asch

wrote:
And the health hazards/probability of a young child licking a bookbag
soaked with apple cider is what again?


Some times...tempests do form in teapots.


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This may be of interest.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Athletic shoe and apparel maker Reebok has
agreed to pay a $1 million fine for importing and distributing
charm bracelets that contained toxic levels of lead and
==resulted in the death of a 4-year-old boy.==

for complete article click onhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2008-03-18-reebok-fin...

Admittedly 1 in 300,000 is pretty good odds, unless it is your
kid that dies. Another factor is that lead exposure has
considerable adverse affects on intelligence, and it does not
take many of the remaining 299,999 bracelets to create a
"learning disability" [special ed] child and/or diminished metal
capacity adults [such as voting Democratic] to incur external [to
the company] costs that far outstrip the 1mm$ fine.

If Reebok had to have a bracelet for product promotion, it would
have been at most only a few additional dollars [if any] for a
tin, aluminum, or inert/safe plastic heart pendant, although this
would still seem to fall under the small parts choking hazard
prohibition.

Unka' George [George McDuffee]
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He that will not apply new remedies,
must expect new evils:
for Time is the greatest innovator: and
if Time, of course, alter things to the worse,
and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better,
what shall be the end?

Francis Bacon (1561-1626), English philosopher, essayist, statesman.
Essays, "Of Innovations" (1597-1625).


"..and it does not
take many of the remaining 299,999 bracelets to create a
"learning disability" [special ed] child and/or diminished metal
capacity adults [such as voting Democratic] to incur external [to
the company] costs that far outstrip the 1mm$ fine. "

"..diminished metal capacity adults [such as voting Democratic]?"

LOL....consider the declining condition of this Country under
Republican leadership and I think the facts speak for themselves as to
which Party the diminished adults have been voting for.

Considering those mentally diminished adults, has George Busb been
tested for lead poisoning?

TMT