“Made In China” Chicken Gets Thumbs Up
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A couple of weeks ago, I left readers hanging about the results of a laboratory lead testing of a rubber chicken I keep in my office. Because the yellow, orange and red chicken was manufactured in China, I naturally wondered if it might have been coated with lead-based paint.
You know, of course, that hundreds of thousands of toys made in China have been recalled in recent weeks because of a lead-paint scandal.
In a column, I mentioned all the crap in my office that was made in Chinese sweat shops. The items included an Uncle Sam bobble-head doll, a plastic Yonkers School District mug, a Jeanine Pirro election-campaign baseball cap and a Donald Trump talking action-figure. And then there was the chicken, which I keep because when squeezed it emits an obnoxious scream.
So, as I said, I brought the chicken to the Westchester County public laboratories at Grasslands where they put the bird through tests. And the result? The chicken is lead free!
That was the verdict given to me today by Alan Baisley, a senior environmental chemist.
Most amazing was that I got the chicken back in one piece. I thought they were going to have to cut its head off, or something.
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Phil Reisman is a veteran journalist and native of Westchester County. He began his career in 1977 as the head copy boy of a startup New York City newspaper that quickly went belly up. Reisman was not to blame for the newspaper's failure, or so he claims.
Who’s paying this “senior environmental chemist?” The overburdened taxpayers, presumably. And I deduce that there are “junior environmental chemists” up there on the payroll. To test your rubber chicken? Next thing you’ll be taking a state helicopter to pick up a pizza.
Do they make pizza in China?
ed, stop. come on. I for one found the blog funny and to the point.
I can just see people wondering all day long about a rubber chicken ooh is that lead based. we could all get hurt by it.
What people fail to realize is .. a rubber chicken coated with lead paint wont hurt you unless you eat it.
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There are a couple of Republican senators out there
who like to choke the rubber chicken.
And Democratic Congressmen.