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Anonymous wrote:Never trust anything made in china, for your child.

wait a minute-my wife is from china, what do you know that i don't know?

Your wife almost certainly experienced mild to moderate lead poisoning as a child, in addition to exposure to unsafe levels of most other heavy metals. You can love your wife and also not have to pretend that China hasn’t had an environmental contamination crisis for the last 30 years.

Anonymous wrote:Keep in mind that we played with the ones from the 70s and are hear to talk about it.

These were my favorite toys in elementary school. I had a ton.

But there is a big trend now of things getting pushed down to younger ages. So people give things like this to their 1 year old who bites the head off, so they replaced them with bigger versions that aren’t as much fun for kids the age we were when we played with them.

Anonymous wrote:They didn't kill or hurt me, my siblings or my friends. I am guessing your kids will be fine.

Babies developing and small children lead causes speech delay, developmental delays and more. It also lowers the IQ of the individual with a dl of 1 to 5 cuts off 7 IQ points. It's easy to say it did not hurt me. The reality is, your IQ would have been affected by this. It also deposits into your bones, teeth and when you are pregnant, it comes out into the baby. Only now testing is being done on children at their 12 months visit to check their lead levels.

The old Fisher Price Little People and many of the toys do have lead, lead in the plastic and in the paint. My child has elevated lead levels, they caught at 12 months. We had all those vintage toys. Our home does not have lead paint, it was built in the 90s.

I imagine a generation from now, todays babies will be horrified at what today's plastic little people are made from...