{"id":276,"date":"2008-12-04T01:36:12","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T08:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/?p=276"},"modified":"2008-12-04T01:37:10","modified_gmt":"2008-12-04T08:37:10","slug":"cnn-says-1-in-3-toys-found-toxic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/main\/276","title":{"rendered":"1 in 3 Toys Found &#8220;Toxic&#8221; says CNN; Hasbro However Tests Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An <a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/12\/03\/news\/companies\/toxic_toys\/index.htm?postversion=2008120314\" target=\"_blank\">article on CNN<\/a> was released today stating that watchdog group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytoys.org\" target=\"_blank\">HealthyToys.org<\/a> claims that 1 in 3 toys on the market today contain toxic levels of chemicals like lead, arsenic, mercury, and others. However, what the CNN article does not mention is that Hasbro&#8217;s 2 most popular brands, Transformers and Star Wars, do not show those signs. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In fact, the HealthyToys.org listings for both <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytoys.org\/product.searchbrand.php?getmake=Transformers\" target=\"_blank\">Transformers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytoys.org\/product.searchbrand.php?getmake=Star%20Wars%20(Hasbro)\" target=\"_blank\">Star Wars<\/a> run low or very low. Even better, Hasbro&#8217;s TF and SW brands placed at the top of their &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthytoys.org\/product.least.php\" target=\"_blank\">best toys<\/a>&#8221; list for action figures with fewest detections of toxins.<\/p>\n<p>The site lists tests and their results in parts-per-million for each listed toxin. As well, some toys have asterisk entries for additional toxins found that aren&#8217;t in their normal list, but do not mention how high those are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article on CNN was released today stating that watchdog group HealthyToys.org claims that 1 in 3 toys on the market today contain toxic levels of chemicals like lead, arsenic, mercury, and others. However, what the CNN article does not mention is that Hasbro&#8217;s 2 most popular brands, Transformers and Star Wars, do not show &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/main\/276\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">1 in 3 Toys Found &#8220;Toxic&#8221; says CNN; Hasbro However Tests Clean<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main","category-toysandcollectibles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tfviews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}