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CEH Stands Up to Ban Cadmium

Last week, the Center for Environmental Health and State Senator Fran Pavley led supporters in Sacramento, urging Governor Schwarzenegger to sign the bill to ban the toxic metal cadmium, from children’s jewelry. This bill would cap cadmium use at 300 parts per million.

CEH brought our x-ray florescence machine along to test parents’ and their kids’ jewelry for cadmium.

“The cadmium levels were shocking– from 500 parts per million to 24,000” ABC 7 News reported.

Watch the video here: