Pet Toys and Dishes STILL Unsafe Due to Lead and Arsenic
How many more dogs and cats have to die before we get smart and quit buying things made in China and laced with lead, chromium, arsenic and who knows what?
If you thought it was safe to buy pet products made in China, think again. Nothing has changed. Chinese pet products, just like children’s toys, are still coming into North America and onto pet store shelves with poisonous levels of these chemicals.
Check out this video from MyFoxDetroit.com.
Pet Toys Could Pose Lead Danger
Friday, 07 Dec 2007Over the last few months, toxic lead levels have prompted the recall of several children’s toys. However, lead and other dangerous chemicals could also be lurking in your pet’s playthings or food dish. FOX 2’s Lila Lazarus puts some pet toys to the test and looks at the danger that lead exposure poses to pets.
After watching the report (here in Detroit), I’ve already ordered my dogs’ Christmas toys from Planet Dog, which sells American-made toys.
Thanks for the web address. I”m going there too.
It’s incredibly frustrating because you don’t really know what you can and can’t buy at the moment.
I am fed up with my dogs being subject to the cost-cutting effectivness of manufacturers. It’s really quite infuriating that the national media don’t publicise this even more. Imagine what the public outcry would be if it was the plates and cutlery that we were using.
Jon,
How do we know its not in the human plates and cutlery? I’ve stopped buying or using anything like that made in China. I have no way of knowing whether or not the plates, baking and cooking supplies have lead or anything else in them that will harm me so I just don’t buy them.
I can’t tell you how many times this year I’ve been tempted to buy some pretty baking dish or plate only to turn it over, see the “made in China” and put it right back on the shelf or move onto another web page.
My advice, buy human dishes and bakeware, etc., made in the US, Canada, Europe or even Asian countries such as Japan where quality is high.
If the chinese manufacturers will poison their people and our pets, you don’t really think they have any great concern for our humans, do you?