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FDA Demands Lead-Free Lunchboxes

Date: July 24, 2006

Author: Caroline E. Mayer

QUOTE: The Food and Drug Administration is urging makers of soft vinyl (PVC) lunchboxes to stop marketing any products that contain lead. The move is an abruptly different course than the one taken by the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which has said that vinyl lunchboxes don't pose a health risk.

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