Right to Know Coalition of Nova Scotia: FOI At Work: 8 Touches of a “Shrek” Glass Enough to Poison a Kid (from the authors of 'The Art of Access: Strategies for Accessing Public Records'

Thursday, October 07, 2010

FOI At Work: 8 Touches of a “Shrek” Glass Enough to Poison a Kid (from the authors of 'The Art of Access: Strategies for Accessing Public Records'

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FOI At Work: 8 Touches of a “Shrek” Glass Enough to Poison a Kid…: "

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The Associated Press with a nice use of FOI:

Federal regulators leaned on McDonald’s to quickly recall 12 million “Shrek”-themed drinking glasses this spring because they concluded that a typical 6-year-old could be exposed to hazardous levels of the metal cadmium by touching one of the glasses just eight times in a day, according to documents obtained under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Of the four collectibles in the series tied to the hit movie “Shrek Forever After,” the glass depicting the character Puss in Boots, with a predominantly orange design, prompted the recall push.
The investigatory file shows how the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission aggressively turned a tip that the glasses contained cadmium in their colored exterior designs into an assessment that the Puss in Boots glasses posed an unacceptable risk to younger kids.