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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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  For those new to this website: Tamara Rubin is a multiple-federal-award-winning independent advocate for childhood Lead poisoning prevention and consumer goods safety, and a documentary filmmaker. She is also a mother of Lead-poisoned children (two of her sons were acutely Lead-poisoned in 2005). Tamara owns and runs Lead Safe Mama, LLC — a community collaborative…

Vintage Fisher Price Little People Yellow Slide: 1,550 ppm Cadmium [75 ppm Cadmium (and up) is unsafe for kids.]

Vintage Fisher Price Little People Yellow Slide: 1,550 ppm Cadmium [75 ppm Cadmium (and up) is unsafe for kids.]

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Vintage Fisher Price Little People Playground Slide. Yellow Plastic. Year of Manufacture Unknown (presumed c. 1970s). To see more vintage Fisher Price items I have tested, click here. The XRF test results for this exact item (pictured above) are as follows: Yellow Plastic Slide: Lead (Pb): Non-Detect/Negative Cadmium (Cd): 1,550 +/- 25 ppm Mercury (Hg): Non-Detect/Negative…

XRF [Heavy Metals Toxicity] Test Results for Vintage Fisher Price Little People Swingset

XRF [Heavy Metals Toxicity] Test Results for Vintage Fisher Price Little People Swingset

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Vintage Fisher Price Little People Swingset. Yellow and Green Plastic. Year of Manufacture Unknown (presumed c. 1970s). To see more vintage Fisher Price items I have tested, click here. The XRF test results for this exact item (pictured below) are as follows: Yellow Plastic Components: Lead (Pb): Non-Detect/Negative Cadmium (Cd): 2,049 +/- 30 ppm Mercury…

Vintage Fisher Price Merry_Go_Round Toy: 4,897 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + 391 ppm Arsenic. Click to learn more.

Vintage Fisher Price Merry_Go_Round Toy: 4,897 ppm Lead (90 is unsafe) + 391 ppm Arsenic. Click to learn more.

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Fisher price merry-go-round-toy When tested with an XRF instrument, this vintage green and yellow plastic Fisher Price playground merry-go-round toy tested positive for Lead and Arsenic. As with most of these vintage plastic toys the variations of toxic heavy metals found in each component of the toy seems to be contingent on the color of…