Lead and Cadmium Free Dishes Made in the U.S.
Support Your Family's Health and the U.S.
Economy (Shipped only within the U.S.)
We are pleased to
offer this beautiful stoneware that made in the U.S. that is
completely free of lead and cadmium. Hand-crafted and
hand-painted. Microwave, freezer, oven and dishwasher
safe.
Parents having their
children tested for heavy metal toxicity are often surprised to
find their children have high levels of lead and cadmium.
They are stumped as to how their children accumulated these
metals. Not coincidentally, it turns out that may of the
bright glazes in children's dinnerware as well as family place
settings are often high in lead and cadmium. The majority of
our dishes are imported from countries such as China that have a
poor track record of safety for children's products. You can
test your dishes by buying a lead test at your local hardware
store and swiping your dishes with it. If any lead is
detected, it's probably best to replace your dishes.
What You Put on the Table is Important to Your Child's Health
Approximately only 1%
of goods imported into the United States are not inspected or
tested by government agencies for safety. Rather, the
responsibility for ensuring the safety of products being imported
is left to the companies importing the goods. Commonly it is only
when a problem is discovered that government agencies like the
Consumer Product Safety Commission step in and investigate the
situation.
For related issues
concerning the toxicity of plastic baby bottles, sports bottles, and other
plastic products containing bisphenols, click here.
Other food for
thought: the odds are that some of the food every American
ate today, or at least some ingredients in the processed food they
ate, came from China because China is the number one exporter of
food to the United States, with food imports from China doubling
between 2004 and 2007. In spite of only inspecting one
percent of imports they are responsible for inspecting, in July
2007 alone, the FDA refused entry for products from China 130
times. Reasons blocking Chinese food imports included: unapproved
ingredients; poisonous substances and/or unsafe additives; being
contaminated with animal drugs and/or pesticides; being tainted
with salmonella; etc. Between August 2006 and July 2007, the FDA
refused the importation of products from China around 1,877 times.
Think about this for a minute; the FDA inspects only one percent
of imports and still rejected Chinese goods 1,877 times. So just
how much unsafe food made it past FDA inspectors and onto the
dinner table of American households? The majority of raw
materials used in supplements come from China. Autism Coach
specifically offers supplements from manufacturers that use the
highest quality ingredients in product lines developed for
environmentally sensitive individuals.
We also recommend
avoiding Wal-Mart and dollar stores which primarily stock cheap
products manufactured in China. In 2006, Wal-Mart imported 26.7
billion dollars of Chinese goods into the U.S. Wal-Mart's
reliance on Chinese goods cost the U.S. over 308,000 jobs.
Also Wal-Mart is notorious for the poor wages and lack of benefits
it offers its
employees. We can't help our children if we don't have
the economic resources to do so. More more information on the Wal-Mart effect, click
here. We
also recommending avoiding dollar stores, which pretty much
exclusively carry goods from China.
