Fisher Price Airplane

Fisher Price recommends not letting kids play with these vintage toys (using them as decor only). They can have unsafe levels of Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic & Mercury.

Fisher Price recommends not letting kids play with these vintage toys (using them as decor only). They can have unsafe levels of Lead, Cadmium, Arsenic & Mercury.

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#Leaded: 1980 Fisher Price Airplane

#Leaded: 1980 Fisher Price Airplane

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1980 Fisher Price/ Quaker Oats Airplane. Yellow (vinyl?) cord at front of airplane (tether): 660 +/- 30 ppm lead (Pb), 52 +/- 21 ppm arsenic (As.) Fisher Price logo on plane:  62 +/- 11 ppm lead. All components negative for mercury and cadmium. All accessible components tested. Tested with an XRF instrument. Here is a…

#Leaded: 1980 Vintage Fisher Price / Quaker Oats Airport and Plane

#Leaded: 1980 Vintage Fisher Price / Quaker Oats Airport and Plane

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Yes it’s hard for some of us to believe that 1980 was 37 years ago! And that 1980 is considered vintage – but let’s set that aside for a moment. 🙂 Each of these items is positive for lead and/or cadmium.  Some at very low levels and others at high levels. Because there are so…