URGENT CHILD HEALTH RISK - McDonald's Recalls Shrek Glasses 'Tainted With Cadmium'

Fast food chain McDonald's has recalled 12 million drinking glasses promoting the new Shrek movie because painted designs on them contain the toxic metal cadmium.

Cadmium can damage the liver, kidneys, lungs, nervous system and brain. In the case of the Shrek glasses, there are concerns about long-term exposure to low levels.

The metal, it says, could leach from the paint onto a child's hands, and then enter the body if the child put an unwashed hand to his or her mouth.'

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