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Group protests chemicals in children's products outside Baucus' Missoula office

Group protests chemicals in children’s products outside Baucus’ Missoula office

Missoulian

Lindsey Galipeau

August 10, 2011

Children’s pink plates and silverware contain chromium, lead and mercury. So does the average pillow. Even a Spider-Man T-shirt and some girl’s dresses contain lead.

Women’s Voices for the Earth carried these “toxic toys” on their Stroller Brigade toward Sen. Max Baucus’ Missoula office on Wednesday.

The brigade, one of 17 events across the country, is pushing for support of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2011, set to be heard by Congress this fall.

 

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