Government covers up study finding lead in lunch boxes

The government found there were unsafe levels of lead in 20% of the vinyl lunch boxes being sold but lied about it to protect the manufacturers:

AP -- In 2005, when government scientists tested 60 soft, vinyl lunch boxes, they found that one in five contained amounts of lead that medical experts consider unsafe — and several had more than 10 times hazardous levels.

But that's not what they told the public.

Instead, theConsumer Product Safety Commission released a statement that they found "no instances of hazardous levels." And they refused to release their actual test results, citing regulations that protect manufacturers from having their information released to the public.

That data was not made public until The Associated Press received a box of about 1,500 pages of lab reports, in-house e-mails and other records in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed a year ago.

Once again, profits for business are more important than the health of our citizens -- in this case our children. This administration has a history of this kind of behavior. Remember the fact that the EPA covered up that it knew the air was unhealthy at the World Trade Center site after 9/11.