Cadmium in children's jewellery

[emma_in_dream]

ACCC's lame response to my inquiry:

Subject: Lead and cadmium in children's jewellery

I see that Americans have just found that lots of cheap kid's jewellery has cadmium in it. This makes me worry about imported children's jewellery in Australia. I want to know: 1, who tests kid's
jewellery in Australia? 2, what are the results? Thank you.

The response:



Dear Ms Hawkes,

Thank you for your second email of 3 February 2010 to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC)

As stated in my previous email, the ACCC is unable to provide you with any information that may assist you in locating the information you are seeking.

Yours sincerely,



ACCC

and

>Dear Ms Hawkes,
>Â
>Thank you for your email of 24 January 2010 to the Australian
>Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) regarding information on
>testers for children's jewellery.
>Â
>The ACCC is a Commonwealth
>Government agency that administers the Trade Practices Act 1974 (TPA)
>for the purposes of protecting consumers and encouraging a fair and competitive business environment.
>Â
>The ACCC is responsible for
>providing policy advice to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer
>in respect of product safety and enforcing mandatory product safety and
>information standards and bans of unsafe products supplied in
>Australia. The ACCC only enforces a select number of mandatory
>information standards under the TPA. Children's jewellery standards are
>not currently enforced by the ACCC. As such the the ACCC is unable to
>provide you with any information that may assist you in locating the
>information you are seeking.  Yours sincerely,
>
>
>
ACCC