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Just days after Disney Princess and the Frog necklaces were recalled for containing the heavy metal cadmium, another Disney branded jewelry line is being recalled for lead, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. This time it's charms sold with Tiny Tink and Friends Children's Toy...

UPDATE: Walmart announced it is pulling the products identified as containing cadmium that are carried in its stores. "We will immediately remove from sale those items identified in recent media reports regarding cadmium while our own investigation is being completed, and until more is known,"...

The cloth book "Big Rex and Friends" is being recalled because a dinosaur in the book has high levels of lead, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. It's not Rex himself that's a problem, but rather his friend, Diplodocus. A large red spot sewn onto Diplodocus contains the lead, the...

Boob tube shipments are up and manufacturer revenues are expected to rise in the first quarter, reversing a six-month decline. But LCD makers are hardly raking it in as prices continue to slide every year.

Zhu Zhu Pets have been this year's Beanie Babies: toys that are so ridiculous in concept, so cheap and simple in execution that you knew they were going to cause long lines and incredible prices on the Black Friday back-alley aftermarket. This year being as it was, retailers were accused of...

Three different types of wooden toys made by Connecticut-based Melissa & Doug have been recalled in Canada after Canadian officials said they tested them and found excessive levels of barium in the paint. Health Canada, the government organization that's responsible for consumer health and...

Remember that monstrous old television that sat in your living room and was almost as thick as it was tall and wide? Those old-school TVs were bad for the brain -- and not just due to the programming. No, the big TVs of yesteryear were also huge containers of toxic lead. Their cathode ray tubes...

On Monday, the Green Electronics Council announced that the highly acclaimed EPEAT rating system would be covering computer equipment sold around the world, as reported by CNET. That's a big expansion and an impressive step forward. An EPEAT (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) rating...

When First Lady Michelle Obama planted an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn in March 2009, she hoped to both set an example of healthy eating and to grow tasty edibles for her daughters and husband. But Michelle's organic dream has been dashed by a nasty toxic legacy lurking in the...

If you're going to make a dent in toy safety, your first stop has to be China. An estimated nine out of 10 toys sold in the U.S. comes from that nation's factories.For Inez Tenenbaum, who President Obama appointed as the new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, dealing with toy...