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Daily Mail: Imported Loom Bands Could Cause Cancer

posted by janrinok on Thursday August 14 2014, @08:48PM   Printer-friendly
from the cheap-but-not-so-cheerful dept.

cafebabe writes:

In a somewhat predictable move, one week after saying that loom bands are wholesome, the Daily Mail now says that loom bands cause cancer. Specifically:-

Parents are being warned of a cancer-scare involving fake accessories for loom bands after tests revealed some imported batches were laced with deadly levels of chemicals.

Safety officials have issued the stark message after intercepting rogue consignments of the bands and plastic trinkets sold with them which were headed for British shelves from the Far East.

Scientists carried out rigorous tests on several loom band 'charms', accessories attached to necklaces and bracelets made from the colourful elastic bands, and each one was found to have dangerous levels of phthalates in them.

In two cases, loom band charms were found to be more than 50% phthalates when the European limit is 0.1%.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by MrNemesis on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:04PM

    by MrNemesis (1582) on Thursday August 14 2014, @10:04PM (#81483)

    You can sidestep the whole submission/editor process by piping in headlines from the Daily Mail-o-matic [qwghlm.co.uk]!

    HAVE THE FRENCH GIVEN PENSIONERS CANCER?
    WILL TWITTER GIVE YOUR HOUSE DIABETES?
    HAS FACEBOOK DESTROYED ENGLAND?
    COULD FEMINISM CHEAT YOUR PENSION?
    COULD GYPSIES STEAL FROM BRITISH SOVEREIGNTY?
    WILL TEENAGE SEX SCROUNGE OFF YOUR PETS?

    To those of you who aren't familiar... please, please treat anything you see on the daily heil website with a Utah's worth of NaCl.

    --
    "To paraphrase Nietzsche, I have looked into the abyss and been sick in it."
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  • (Score: 2) by cafebabe on Friday August 15 2014, @01:19AM

    by cafebabe (894) on Friday August 15 2014, @01:19AM (#81548) Journal

    If you don't want to enable scripts, the source code [qwghlm.co.uk] is entertaining, especially with comments such as:-

    // I CAN'T BELIEVE THE MAIL ACTUALLY SAID FACEBOOK COULD GIVE YOU CANCER, FOR REAL

    Unfortunately, they did [dailymail.co.uk].

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    1702845791×2

  • (Score: 2) by clone141166 on Friday August 15 2014, @02:48AM

    by clone141166 (59) on Friday August 15 2014, @02:48AM (#81565)

    I laughed at (and appreciated) the "Daily Mail:" warning prefix in the story headline.

    It seems like the intent of the story may have been just as much (or more) about paying out the Daily Mail as it was about loom bands?