Product Safety & Compliance
Consumer and Customer Safety is Important to Us:
We are in compliance
to the Acts, Bylaws and Laws set forth by Health Canada and the US CPSIA.
We will regularly keep our products and materials within these
standards outlined by both Health Canada and the US CPSIA.
As updates, amendments occur to these
laws and acts we will keep our products and materials and the information found on this page current. We have added
some facts, and quotes outlined by both the US CPSIA and Health Canada.
We have also provided links to Health Canada and their Enforcement Policy of Children's
Jewellery Regulations under the Hazardous Products Acts.
"Many jewelry
items are covered with a protective coating and these coatings contain lead on the metal findings (cheap costume jewelry is
highly noted to have these coatings on the metal findings). A large potion of costume jewelry sold in North America
today contains lead. This not lead exposure risk associated with wearing lead-containing jewelry, but lead exposure
can occur when the jewelry is chewed or sucked on. Lead components of costume jewelry are often covered with a protective
or decorative coating (such as metallic coatings), but such coatings may be readily removed when the item is sucked or chewed.
Young children have a natural habit of putting items in their mouths and lead has a sweetish taste which encourages children
to chew or suck on lead-containing jewelry".
All of Baby Bead Treasures
precious metals are 100% lead free and nickel free, we do not or have not ever used ANY metals that contain lead coating on
the surface or within the precious metals themselves. All of our jewelry findings are .925 or higher sterling silver content,
or 10K, 14K or 20K Gold Filled, or 14K vermeil gold.
Children's
Birthstone Bracelets we use the Czech Fire-Polished Jablonex Lead Free Crystal Beads:
Czech Fire-Polished Jablonex
Glass Crystals have been immensely popular for over two centuries and their appeal is still growing today. Compared to the
Flat Lap-Polished beads, the Fire-Polished beads have three major advantages:
1. No Lead and Very Durable
2.
The intense heat of the furnace "fires" the facets smooth. The result is warm flashes of refracted fire, boiling
up from the interior rather than the intense surface reflections of a Lap-Polished bead.
3. Significantly better pricing
This allowable product listed is what can be used or sold for children
according to the "Guide to US Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) for Small Businesses, Crafters, Resellers and Charities": - - Wood
- -
Other natural materials including coral, amber, feathers, fur, and untreated leather
- - Yarn,
dyed or undyed
- - Dyed or undyed textiles (cotton, wool, hemp, nylon, etc.), including children’s
fabric products, such as baby blankets, and non‐metallic thread and trim. This does not include products that
have rhinestones or other ornaments that may contain lead or that have fasteners with possible lead content (such as buttons,
metal snaps, zippers or grommets).
- - Children’s books printed after 1985 that are conventionally
printed and intended to be read, as opposed to used for play
- - Certain educational materials,
such as chemistry sets
- - Natural Precious gemstones: diamond, ruby, sapphire or emeralds
- - Natural Semi-precious stones
- - Natural or cultured pearls
- -
Surgical steel
- - 10K Gold or More
- - Silver, at least 925/1000
pure
- -Platinum, palladium, rhodium, osmium, iridium, and ruthenium
