{"id":4148,"date":"2011-09-20T10:59:35","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T17:59:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unrbep.org\/?p=4148"},"modified":"2011-12-07T09:37:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T16:37:36","slug":"cadmium-content-in-childrens-jewelry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/cadmium-content-in-childrens-jewelry\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadmium Content in Children&#8217;s Jewelry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Consumer Product Safety Commission<\/strong>\u00a0issued a notice in the Federal Register that it will write regulations to limit\u00a0<strong>cadmium<\/strong>\u00a0content in children\u2019s jewelry if the industry does not take steps to remove the metal from its products by Dec. 16,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-09-16\/jewelry-makers-given-three-months-by-u-s-to-set-cadmium-limits?category=\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg reported<\/a>. The agency also granted a petition from four consumer groups requesting that cadmium be banned unless\u00a0<strong>ASTM International<\/strong>\u00a0acts in the next three months to determine a safe level for consumer products.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Target<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Gap<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Saks Fifth Avenue<\/strong>\u00a0are among 26 major retailers that have reached a settlement under California\u2019s<strong>Proposition 65<\/strong>\u00a0to eliminate all but trace amounts of<strong>cadmium<\/strong>\u00a0from jewelry and other accessories,\u00a0The Associated Press reported\u00a0on Wednesday. The settlement comes months before the state\u2019s new limit on the amount of of the metal in\u00a0consumer products\u00a0goes into effect. Last year, the\u00a0<strong>Center for Environmental Health<\/strong>\u00a0filed notices under Proposition 65, and a lawsuit, after reports\u00a0revealed that\u00a0some\u00a0commonly sold bracelets and pendants contained more than 90 percent cadmium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Consumer Product Safety Commission\u00a0issued a notice in the Federal Register that it will write regulations to limit\u00a0cadmium\u00a0content in children\u2019s jewelry if the industry does not take steps to remove the metal from its products by Dec. 16,\u00a0Bloomberg reported. The agency also granted a petition from four consumer groups requesting that cadmium be banned unless\u00a0ASTM International\u00a0acts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/cadmium-content-in-childrens-jewelry\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cadmium Content in Children&#8217;s Jewelry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4510,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions\/4510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unrbep.org\/dealerportal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}