With the Chinese New Year coming up, there’s a spike in the demand for good luck charms. But be careful about the charms you choose.
“Using a portable X-ray fluorescence analyzer, the EcoWaste Coalition examined 50 good luck charms bought from retail shops in Binondo, Divisoria, and Quiapo,” reports Jeannette I. Andrade in the Philippine Daily Inquirer.
Out of the 50m charms, the group said 34 tested positive for high levels of lead, 16 had arsenic, while the rest had cadmium.
The report revealed that “none of the items were labeled so buyers had no idea who the manufacturers were, what country these came from, the ingredients they contain, along with health and safety warnings.”
In that case, do we just blame the universe for these toxic things?
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