Lead, Lead and More Lead

I read this in the SJ Mercury News Today.  This is very scary... lead is lurking everywhere:

Unsafe levels of lead in kids' jewelry
Mercury News Wire Services

SACRAMENTO -- With the holidays approaching, officials are warning parents that they've found unsafe levels of lead in children's jewelry at retail outlets across the state.

The items include a pendant from a gum-ball machine at a Church's Fried Chicken in Oakland that authorities said was nearly solid lead. Tests showed it had a lead content of 368,000 parts per million. A new state law limits lead content in metallic material in children's jewelry to 600 parts per million.

One-third of the more than 125 pieces of jewelry tested so far by the California Department of Toxic Substances Control had excessive levels of lead.