NGO Files Suit Against Disney on Lead in Theme Park Facilities
The Center for Environmental Health states that the Mateel Environmental Justice Foundation has filed suit in Orange County Superior Court requesting an immediate injunction to force Disney to either abate lead hazards or provide parents with warnings about lead-tainted items…
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in its theme parks. The group claims that tests of wipe samples by an independent lab found that children can be exposed to lead above California standards from several lead-tainted brass railings, brass drinking water fountains, brass statues and figurines that children play with at several attractions, and in leaded glass at restaurants, among other places. At one attraction, they state that lead is accessible to children at a level that is 2600 times higher than the state safety standard.