Cadmium is a soft, whitish metal that occurs naturally in soil. It's perhaps best known as one half of rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries, but also is used in pigments, electroplating and plastic.
Lab testing organized by The Associated Press shows that it also is present in children's jewelry — sometimes at eye-popping levels exceeding 90 percent of the item's total weight.
I have been tryng for 2 years now not to buy items marked "Made in China" because of their human rights violations.
You have no idea how many items we have here that were manufactured in China.
Perhaps if we were not so obsessed with buying the absolute cheapest products in the world, the entire Chinese manufacturing economy would not be so massive & dangerous