It’d be hilarious if it weren’t so sad–you know how the various state police posts and government agencies have been railing on people to get their car seats installed properly? Well, as it turns out, many of those car seats are actually–get this–tainted with lead.
Check THIS out:
More than half (58%) of the car seats tested by the group contained one or more hazardous chemicals, including PVC, brominated flame retardants (BFRs), and heavy metals. This does not mean infants and young children who use these seats will become ill or experience adverse effects now or later in life, nor that parents should not use car seats, which can save lives.
So now, the car seats that everyone’s counting on to save lives have about a fifty / fifty chance of exposing children to some kind of chemical additive that may or may not have some effect on them later. Note the phrasing there: “this does not mean infants…will become ill”. It also does not mean they will not.
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. The choice is horrendous.
Tags: car seats, chemicals, child car safety, child safety seats, flame retardants, lead, PVC