by wildcherry on Saturday, December 5th, 2009 | News, World

A consumerwatchdog group goodguide said that theZhu Zhu pet is toxic and has a chemical called antimony, a metal with potential health hazards.

Dara O Rourke, an associate professor ofenvironmental science at U.C – Berkelye and co founder of goodguide said that if ingested in high levels, it can lead to cancer, reproductive health and other human health hazards.

Good Guide partners with a number of companies to rate the social, environmental and health impacts of many products which also includes testing of toys like the Zhu Zhu pet for for toxic chemicals. Goodguide said that Zhu Zhu hamster had quite high levels of antimony

The federal limit is 60 parts per million but Zhu Zhu pet had 93 parts per million in the fur and around 103 in the nose.

O Rourke said that as the Zhu Zhu toys aren’t even meeting the legal standards in the US, so he believes that it isn’t worth the risk to bring it home.
Goodguide said the main risk is when kids touch the toys and put the sake hand in their mouth or put the hamster directly in their mouth.

The Zhu Zhu toy is made in China but the company Cepia llc is headquartered in St, Louis

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