Pat wrote:
On Mar 24, 7:26 am, "HeyBub" wrote:
"Rachel Merrill, mother of three, was holding innocuous-seeming
contraband in her hand at an Arlington Goodwill store earlier this
month: a 1971 edition of "Little House on the Prairie." This copy of
the children's classic had just become illegal to resell because of
concerns that some old books contain lead in their ink. "

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...09/03/23/AR200...

It's for the children.

That's a big issue for libraries right now. They either have to throw
out books for test them of lead. Few if any budgeted for it.

I'm a BIG fan of lead control in homes but even to me this seems a bit
extreme. I guess someone is afraid that a kid who loves a book is
eating it, or something.

Right. It's the EATING of the lead, not the PRESENCE of the lead that's the
problem. If the regulators dealt directly with the symptom, libraries could
fashion some icky-tasting coating that would have to be cheaper than the
destructive, $700 test for lead content.