There are carcinogens in the cup

After analyzing the chemicals in glass cups with cartoon characters for children in the United States, scientists found that these cups contained 16 to 16 times more dangerous metal. 30% of the level - is thought to reduce children's intelligence. Notably, most of these cups are made in China.

According to current regulations of the United States, children's products are only allowed to contain no more than 0.03% of lead content. However, most of the children's decorative print cups were recently tested by US authorities, which contained a higher level of lead than this allowed, from 500-1,000 times.

In particular, the test results at the ToyTestingLab laboratory in Rhode (USA) show that the Tin Man character-printed glass cups have the highest lead content of 1,006 times the permitted level for the products for children of the United States of America.

In addition, scientists also found that decorative print cups for children also contain very high levels of Cadmium. Cadmium is thought to cause brain damage and damage the kidneys and bones. If regular contact can lead to cancer.

Experts also found cups with logos of companies such as Coca-Cola, Walt Disney, Burger King and McDonald's containing heavy metals that were higher than those permitted by the United States.

The news prompted the beverage group Coca-Cola to decide to recall the 88,000 glass cups with its red logo to re-test the heavy metal content of these products. However, Coca-Cola also emphasized their decision not to relate to the CPSC's findings.

Earlier, in June 2010, McDonald's in the United States was also forced to order 13 million glass cups to print pictures of characters in the Shrek animation film because it contained toxic lead and cadmium.