Dangerous lunch boxes
The Hawthorne and Lawndale elementary school districts and Women, Infants & Children (WIC) centers in Torrance, San Pedro and Hawthorne are among the agencies statewide that received some of the 56,000 lunch boxes announced today to potentially contain lead.
The state on Thursday put out a warning about lead-tainted lunch boxes distributed by the Department of Public Health. The boxes were given out at health fairs and other events and carried a logo saying “eat fruits and vegetables and be active.” They were imported from China by T-A Creations Inc. of Los Angeles.
The department urged consumers to return the lunch boxes to the places where they got them or to a household hazardous waste disposal facility. As a precaution, it also urged consumers not to use approximately 300,000 other lunch boxes distributed by the department.
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