Lunch Box Warning
Lunch Box Lead Tests Raise Concerns - washingtonpost.com
I’m not sure how much influence lunch box makers have over policy at the FDA, but this story makes me think we have the wrong people doing the deciding.
Here’s a quote from Julie Vallese, a Consumer Products Safety Commission officer:
“Children would have to rub their lunch box and then lick their hands more than 600 times every day, for about 15-30 days, in order for the lunch box to present a health hazard.”
That doesn’t sound like something a parent of a young child would say. Imagine your child anxiously awaiting lunch, fidgeting by scratching his lunch box on his little desktop. Doesn’t some lead come off in a case like that?
Why is ANY lead allowed in children’s lunch boxes?