GROUP CLAIMS DISNEY JEWELRY CONTAINS LEAD SUIT THREATENED IF ITEMS NOT REMOVED.Byline: Staff and Wire Services BURBANK - Children's jewelry sold by The Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. contains dangerously toxic levels of lead, an environmental group charged Tuesday. The Center for Environmental Health accused the entertainment giant of selling bracelets with paint and plastic laden with lead and threatened legal action if it doesn't pull the toys from retail stores and Disneyland shops. It alleged that a Disney Princess For the Game Boy Advance game, see . Disney Princess is a Walt Disney Company franchise, based on fictional characters who have been featured as part of the Disney character line-up. bracelet key ring manufactured by Monogram monogram [Gr.,=single letter], symbol of a name or names, consisting typically of a letter or several letters worked together. A famous monogram is that of Christ, consisting of X (chi) and P (rho), the first two letters of Christ in Greek. International and a mood bracelet and necklace made by an unnamed manufacturer could pose health hazards to children who put them in their mouths. ``We want to see Disney, because of its reputation and how well it's known, to take responsibility,'' said Michael Green There are several people called Michael Green, including:
The group claimed the mood jewelry, labeled ``lead free,'' had a lead content of at least 11,000 parts per million parts per million mg/kg or ml/l; see ppm. . A glossy coating on one Disney children's bracelet contained more than 275 times the legal limit for lead in paint set by Proposition 65, the state's anti-toxics law, according to the CEH CEH Certified Ethical Hacker CEH Centre for Ecology and Hydrology CEH Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico CEH Centre for Environmental Health CEH Continuing Education Hour CEH Complex Electronic Hardware CEH Colorado Evidentiary Hearing . Under that law, the attorney general has 60 days to decide whether to take action or leave the nonprofit to file a lawsuit. Disney Consumer Products issued a statement, however, insisting the company's products are safe. ``Disney-licensed character products are required to meet all federal product safety regulations and environmental standards and Disney's own- labeled products sold at the Disneyland Resort are tested by Disney to meet or exceed those regulations and standards,'' the statement said. Green said that after CEH filed a legal notice of intent to sue the day before, Disney representatives called to ask which products were allegedly contaminated contaminated, v 1. made radioactive by the addition of small quantities of radioactive material. 2. made contaminated by adding infective or radiographic materials. 3. an infective surface or object. . At the end of its press conference, CEH dressed a representative in an oversized o·ver·size n. 1. A size that is larger than usual. 2. An oversize article or object. adj. o·ver·size also o·ver·sized Larger in size than usual or necessary. rodent costume with a strong resemblance to Disney's Mickey Mouse. The group stressed that its mouse, clad in a tuxedo, bow tie and athletic sandals and with a black ponytail poking from its head, was named ``Mikey.'' Mikey and Green, walking hand-in-hand to Disney's front gate, attempted to deliver a letter to outgoing chief executive officer Michael Eisner and successor Robert Iger. Security guards ordered them off the lot and refused to take the package. The duo awaited a response for about 10 minutes, then left. |
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