MEGA BLOCS FULL
One full set of test results is reported below.Īnything 100 ppm Lead or higher in the substrate (the base plastic of a toy) manufactured today is considered illegal and unsafe for children to play with. Testing was done multiple times (in “Consumer Goods” mode) to confirm the results. Readings reported below are science-based, replicable and accurate. The block pictured (with test results reported here on this post) is a large yellow block bigger than my hand, the type intended for toddlers to play with. The exact XRF readings of this block are as follows: In 1989, Ritvik sold all of its other toy and plastics lines.” A piano set with Mega Blok-compatible keys for the pre-school market was released in 1988. īy 1989, Mega Bloks were in 30 countries and popular in Europe, the US and Canada. Several multinational companies had made offers just after the trade show for distribution rights, as well as to buy either Mega Bloks or RH itself. An immediate hit, Mega Bloks had generally large sales in Canada, including a $1 million sale to Toys R Us, and were available almost anywhere in the two markets in 1985. “At 1984 trade shows, Ritvik showed the Mega Bloks line in the US and Canada. Since then, new legislation has been passed to help protect children - and that very same testing methodology (XRF testing, the same methodology I use to help determine total Lead content) - is now one of the primary methods used to screen toys for toxicants – a “gold standard”, used by Federal agencies (including the Consumer Product Safety Commission) to test items intended for use by children. The block pictured has Lead levels higher than the Lead levels reported by the New York Times in 2007, so it is possible it is from an earlier date, but the original owner informed me that this was at her mother’s house for her nephews to play with – and that they were born in 2006 – so 2007 seems to be a fairly accurate date guess for this.Īt the time the issue of Lead in yellow Mega Bloks brand blocks was first discovered and reported, the manufacturer responded by claiming that the testing methodology (super-accurate XRF analysis) used to test the blocks in 2007 was not appropriate. Based on the condition and style of this toy (it seems nearly new!), I expect this particular block was manufactured in the window between 19 (probably closer to 2007, as it looks nearly new.) The New York Times wrote an article about the issue of Lead in the modern / current version of these toys in 2007 – here’s the link. While Mega Bloks are not dated (and an exact production year is hard to pinpoint), production started in 1985 (and continues through today). and radio), on t he Today Show Kids in the House Al Jazeera English The Voice of Russia CBS This Morning, and through news stories on CBS ABC NBC, and even Fox News – as well as in countless podcasts and other interviews. Tamara’s advocacy work has been mentioned in print in The New York Times the New York Post Mother Jones Parents Magazine MNN.com TruthOut WebMD the Huffington Post, USA Today Grok Nation, and more (too many outlets to list!) – and in other media (T.V. She goes by #LeadSafeMama on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram and has over 2,500 separate posts of information (mostly consumer goods test results) on her blog at. It is with the help, support, and participation of these readers that she conducts and reports on independent testing of consumer goods for toxicants (Lead, Mercury, Arsenic, Cadmium, and Antimony), using high-accuracy X-Ray Fluoresence analysis ( read more about that here). As of November 15, 2020, she has had more than 1.5 million unique individual readers visit her blog in the past 12 months (with over 3.5 million page views!) – from more than 200 countries (per Google Analytics) around the world! She has won multiple national awards for her Lead-poisoning prevention advocacy work (including two from U.S. Her young men are now 24, 18, 15, and 12. Tamara Rubin lives in Portland, Oregon and is a child health advocate, author, documentary filmmaker, and mother of four sons.
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