Elmer’s Vows Safety Review after Reports of High Lead Levels

October 31, 2007

  • October 31, 2007 at 2:00 am
    Cap Sucker says:
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    It is amazaing that companies like this had put lead containing coatings or materials on a glue stick cap! They could have done some quick and easy product hazard evaluation by just getting a group of young kids and give them some paper and glue sticks to play with. Guarantee you one or more puts the glue stick cap in their mouth after a few minutes…

    You don’t need a Ph. D in chemistry to figure that one out. Who is running these QC departments anyway???

  • October 31, 2007 at 2:06 am
    lastbat says:
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    Ah, but that which gets inspected gets done. There is no regulation for lead in plastic and the lead was found on/in the plastic caps. With no regulation to follow they had to reason to check this out.

    Good job on Consumer Reports.

  • October 31, 2007 at 2:15 am
    Cap Sucker says:
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    You are right; there are no regulations for common sense.

  • October 31, 2007 at 3:50 am
    alice says:
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    If Consumer Reports did a thorough job of investigating and analyzing it would have realized that a kid would have to eat or drink 2 gallons of Elmers glue to impact the level of lead in the blood. Kids have been licking their fingers after using glue for decades without incident. Why is there a sudden groundswell of concern for a proble that isn’t?

  • October 31, 2007 at 4:00 am
    lastbat says:
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    I think part of it comes from all the reports out of China. As for how much the child would have to ingest – that is irrelevant. They were testing against set standards and regulations (albeit for a different industry).

    Now time to see if any new regulations come from this. I’m not sure they’re needed, but pretty sure they will come.

  • November 1, 2007 at 1:20 am
    Dread says:
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    Does anyone find it odd that after all the years Elmers glue has been on the market that “suddenly” everyone is so enlightened that it’s safety has become a major concern? There’s harldy any products out there that don’t have something or another wrong with them. I think people are going overboard with this nonense. Teach your kids not to eat the @amned stuff.

  • November 2, 2007 at 3:35 am
    SP says:
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    The lead isn’t in the glue. It’s in the caps.

    As lastbat said, we are just very sensitive to lead right now. Everything is being tested. In a couple of years this will blow over and we will have a new “hidden danger” to stress out about.



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