So if you're concerned about lead on toys, we think you can use one of these do-it-yourself lead test kits.
The ones that we recommend, particularly the Homax Lead Check and the Lead Check Household Lead Test Kit, use a sort of a cigarette-sized swab.
So, in terms of detecting the surface lead of the five home lead test kits that you put to the test, how exactly do they work?
Mr. MAYS: It can be expensive, you know, not prohibitively expensive, but it would probably cost you more to have a quality laboratory run a thorough lead test for you than it would for just the cost of the toy.
So we sort of focused our recommendations on, you know, the Lead Check Test and something called the Lead Inspector, which had more ability for detecting lead in pink or red objects, which can sometimes fool your test results.
For Fleming, he will now focus on his batting in the 50-over game whilst continuing to lead the Test side.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said that they didn't find home test kits useful for detecting lead because in their test, they found too many false negatives and a few false positive test results.
Who knows if it could lead to the Test captaincy later in my career - at the moment this is all speculation and I am just waiting for a call either way.
India's 13-year run without a home Test series defeat looks set to come to an end as South Africa take a 314-run lead in the second Test in Bangalore.
Australia go into the third Test at the Waca with a 2-0 lead in the five-Test series.
Skipper Graeme Smith steered the visitors, who lead the three-Test series 1-0, to 23-0 by the close.
Simon Katich scored an unbeaten 113 to lead Australia, who lead the three-Test series 1-0, to 259-3 at stumps.
Sri Lanka lead the two-Test series 1-0, after they won the opening Test at the Guyana National Stadium by 121 runs.
England take a 1-0 lead into the penultimate Test of the series with The Oval Test following on Thursday, 20 August.
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Bath's Lewis Moody replaced Borthwick as captain and became the second captain, after Johnson in 2003, to lead England to a Test match victory over the Wallabies on Australian soil.
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Ponting's side now take a 1-0 series lead into the second Test in Antigua and he admitted to being pleased with how Australia went about their work in beating West Indies.
He says he believes researchers will soon publish results in a major medical journal that could lead to a diagnostic test that may predict whether drugs such as Tarceva and Iressa will work.
The year the oldest Ohio-class ballistic-missile sub completes its final nuclear patrol is now expected to be 2027, which sounds a long way off until you realize it takes nearly two decades to design, develop, build and test the lead ship in a successor class.
It is a test project, lead by young engineers working for Surrey Satellites, a hugely successful spin-out from The University of Surrey.
Dr Reynolds, and others, have shown that under the influence of suitable growth factors, stem cells can lead full lives in a test tube.
At the same time, Asia experts said, a too-mild U.S. response to the expected test launch could lead Tokyo and Seoul to conclude that they need to take a more aggressive approach to addressing their own security needs.
If the Federal Reserve is requiring banks to run a stress test, that should be a heads up to take their lead and follow suit with our own personal financial stress test.
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World champions South Africa take an unassailable 2-0 lead into the third and final Test at Ellis Park.
He will lead the side in the second Test against Australia in Leeds and the following four Tests against England.
After breaking his opponent in the fourth game for a 3-1 lead, Murray's stiffest test of the first set came in the seventh game, which was won when Janowicz put a return wide.
The discovery of the gene that controls Rett syndrome could lead to the development of a test to diagnose the disorder before birth and new methods to prevent the debilitating effects of the disease.
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Lead researcher Professor Geoffrey Sher said the test may allow doctors to cut the number of embryos they use in IVF treatment - and thus reduce the number of multiple births.
Meanwhile, South Africa ended the third day of the second Test against Australia with a lead of 199 runs after Hashim Amla and A.B. de Villiers took the home side to 229-3 in their second innings in Johannesburg.
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