[PED-NPSY] Cadmium, jewelry - USA ex China: alert

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[PED-NPSY] Cadmium, jewelry - USA ex China: alert

Toxic Metal Cadmium Found in Chinese Made Kid's Jewelry

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Deprived of the ability to use lead in children's jewelry manufactured

and bound for the U.S., it appears China has found a deep, and even

more toxic, substitute. An Associated Press (AP) investigation has

found the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium is being used by some

Chinese manufacturers in those fake jewelry being sold throughout the

United States. [This is actually cheap costume jewelry. I am unaware

the jewelry is being passed as " fake " for anything. - Mod.TG]

Anyone who has watched a todddler or young child at play knows that it

is not necessary to assume a child will have to swallow a

cadmium-laced item to be harmed. Children love to suck on such items,

and cadmium is toxic enough for poisoning to occur from repeated

sucking.

[The concern here stems from the original AP report

<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wirestory?id=9525526 & page=2\> stating

that some of the jewelry flaked off cadmium particles. A piece of

jewelry or toy or any other item that is flaking off pieces of cadmium

could be toxic if they were consumed. - Mod.TG]

Lab testing was done on 103 items purchased in New York, Ohio, Texas

and California. All but one were bought in November or December

[2009], making the sampling very recent. The results are worrisome: 12

percent of the pieces of jewelry contained at least 10 percent

cadmium. [Although these 103 items were recently purchased there were

other items purchased in 2008, according to the original AP article. -

Mod.TG]

One of the tested items was 91 percent cadmium by weight. Others

showed 89 percent, 86 percent and 84 percent cadmium by weight. In

some items, cadmium was easily shed from the jewelry.

For parents who see their children demand trinkets associated with

popular movies, the study noted that high amounts of cadmium also were

detected in " The Princess and The Frog " movie-themed pendants.

Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said " There's nothing

positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison. " Not only

is it toxic, on the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous

substances in the environment, cadmium ranks number 7.

Examples of some of the issues associated with cadmium poisoning can

be recalled from Japan, where environmental exposure to cadmium was

the result of people consuming rice that was grown in cadmium

contaminated irrigation water. The phenomenon was known as itai-itai

disease. " Itai " means " ouch " in Japanese. Cadmium is also a

carcinogen.

Cadmium poisoning can affect bones, causing osteoporosis, renal

failure, and more. Continued long enough, death will result.

[byline: Santo]

--

[Cadmium is a lustrous, silver-white, ductile, very malleable metal.

Its surface has a bluish tinge and the metal is soft enough to be cut

with a knife, but it tarnishes in air. It is soluble in acids but not

in alkalis. It is similar in many respects to zinc but it forms more

complex compounds. In the earth's crust, cadmium is always found in

association with zinc. Cadmium can be produced as a byproduct of

smelting zinc.

The disease referred to 'itai-itai' literally translates to

'ouch-ouch' disease. The disease is characterized by osteomalacia

accompanied with osteoporosis, and multiple proximal renal tubular

dysfunctions. Cadmium causes a syndrome described as softening of the

bones, and it affects all bones and joints, including those of the

spine. The bone pain and the kidney pain of those suffering from the

disease gave rise to the name of the disease.

In addition, victims of cadmium intoxication generally suffer with dry

throat, cough, headache, vomiting, chest pain, congestive lung

conditions, pulmonary edema, bronchospasm, wheezing, pneumonitis,

muscle weakness, and severe leg pain. Additionally damage to the

immune system, psychological damage and even cancers have been

associated with cadmium toxicity. Supportive care is about the best

treatment. EDTA (ethylene-diamine-tetra-acetic acid) chelation therapy

has been added to hemodialysis and has had some positive effect.

While the Consumer Protection Safety Commission is aware of high

cadmium levels, they seem to be hampered in regulating this product as

most of the regulations test for lead, not cadmium.

Portions of this comment were extracted from:

<http://www.lenntech.com/periodic/elements/cd.htm> - Mod.TG]

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[PED-NPSY] Cadmium, jewelry - USA ex China: alert

Toxic Metal Cadmium Found in Chinese Made Kid's Jewelry

------------ --------- --------- --------- --------- -------

Deprived of the ability to use lead in children's jewelry manufactured

and bound for the U.S., it appears China has found a deep, and even

more toxic, substitute. An Associated Press (AP) investigation has

found the more dangerous heavy metal cadmium is being used by some

Chinese manufacturers in those fake jewelry being sold throughout the

United States. [This is actually cheap costume jewelry. I am unaware

the jewelry is being passed as " fake " for anything. - Mod.TG]

Anyone who has watched a todddler or young child at play knows that it

is not necessary to assume a child will have to swallow a

cadmium-laced item to be harmed. Children love to suck on such items,

and cadmium is toxic enough for poisoning to occur from repeated

sucking.

[The concern here stems from the original AP report

<http://abcnews. go.com/Business/ wirestory? id=9525526 & page=2\> stating

that some of the jewelry flaked off cadmium particles. A piece of

jewelry or toy or any other item that is flaking off pieces of cadmium

could be toxic if they were consumed. - Mod.TG]

Lab testing was done on 103 items purchased in New York, Ohio, Texas

and California. All but one were bought in November or December

[2009], making the sampling very recent. The results are worrisome: 12

percent of the pieces of jewelry contained at least 10 percent

cadmium. [Although these 103 items were recently purchased there were

other items purchased in 2008, according to the original AP article. -

Mod.TG]

One of the tested items was 91 percent cadmium by weight. Others

showed 89 percent, 86 percent and 84 percent cadmium by weight. In

some items, cadmium was easily shed from the jewelry.

For parents who see their children demand trinkets associated with

popular movies, the study noted that high amounts of cadmium also were

detected in " The Princess and The Frog " movie-themed pendants.

Bruce A. Fowler, a cadmium specialist and toxicologist with the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said " There's nothing

positive that you can say about this metal. It's a poison. " Not only

is it toxic, on the CDC's priority list of 275 most hazardous

substances in the environment, cadmium ranks number 7.

Examples of some of the issues associated with cadmium poisoning can

be recalled from Japan, where environmental exposure to cadmium was

the result of people consuming rice that was grown in cadmium

contaminated irrigation water. The phenomenon was known as itai-itai

disease. " Itai " means " ouch " in Japanese. Cadmium is also a

carcinogen.

Cadmium poisoning can affect bones, causing osteoporosis, renal

failure, and more. Continued long enough, death will result.

[byline: Santo]

--

[Cadmium is a lustrous, silver-white, ductile, very malleable metal.

Its surface has a bluish tinge and the metal is soft enough to be cut

with a knife, but it tarnishes in air. It is soluble in acids but not

in alkalis. It is similar in many respects to zinc but it forms more

complex compounds. In the earth's crust, cadmium is always found in

association with zinc. Cadmium can be produced as a byproduct of

smelting zinc.

The disease referred to 'itai-itai' literally translates to

'ouch-ouch' disease. The disease is characterized by osteomalacia

accompanied with osteoporosis, and multiple proximal renal tubular

dysfunctions. Cadmium causes a syndrome described as softening of the

bones, and it affects all bones and joints, including those of the

spine. The bone pain and the kidney pain of those suffering from the

disease gave rise to the name of the disease.

In addition, victims of cadmium intoxication generally suffer with dry

throat, cough, headache, vomiting, chest pain, congestive lung

conditions, pulmonary edema, bronchospasm, wheezing, pneumonitis,

muscle weakness, and severe leg pain. Additionally damage to the

immune system, psychological damage and even cancers have been

associated with cadmium toxicity. Supportive care is about the best

treatment. EDTA (ethylene-diamine- tetra-acetic acid) chelation therapy

has been added to hemodialysis and has had some positive effect.

While the Consumer Protection Safety Commission is aware of high

cadmium levels, they seem to be hampered in regulating this product as

most of the regulations test for lead, not cadmium.

Portions of this comment were extracted from:

<http://www.lenntech .com/periodic/ elements/ cd.htm> - Mod.TG]

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