Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008 & Lead Info

The Lang Company Silver Jewelry uses different styles of fire polished beads, vintage glass and crystal beads in our jewelry and we also offer a variety of lead crystal and glass jewelry ring holders. Lead will make the beads or ring holders very reflective while lead free glass has a more plain, less sparkly look. Also there are many house ware and home decor objects made from lead crystal.

Mosser and Boyd Jewelry Holders
Our Mosser Glass Co. and Boyd Crystal Art Glass jewelry holders are lead free.

Vintage Jewelry Ring Holders
TLC Silver Jewelry offers many unique "vintage" jewelry ring holders. We know that some of these items are made of lead crystal thru common knowledge and manufacturer labels applied to items. But often there is no way to verify the lead content of our "vintage" jewelry ring holders. As such we do not recommend these items be purchased for use by children aged 12 and under.

Czech Glass Beads

TLC Silver Jewelry uses lots of Czech glass beads in our vaseline glass and other handmade bead jewelry. Except for a very few colors Czech glass beads are lead free. Here's an excerpt from their lead content statement:

Product certificate according to the PN 0860 Industrial Standard and the PN 0800-PN082 materials standards with exception of beads made of glass cane with the unique identifying numbers of 71000* and 71010*, none of the Fire Polished or Pressed Bead colors contain lead and/or lead oxide.
* These products are acceptable for use in retail jewelry. The Czech glass cane that the beads are made from contains lead oxide, which does not cause the same health concerns as metallic lead.

Swarovski Crystals
Many of TLC Silver Jewelry's handcrafted items contain Swarovski crystals. Learn more in Swarovski's "Lead in Crystal and Jewelry Update".

CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY IMPROVEMENT ACT OF 2008
The Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008 was passed that year and sets new lower levels of acceptable lead content items sold for use by children under 12 years of age in the United States. One of the provisions of this law is that all products for use by children under 12 in the US have to pass specific tests for lead content. The first part of the act will go into effect on February 10th, 2009.

The Lang Company Silver Jewelry does not sell products intended for use by children aged 12 and under. Our products should not be purchased for use by children aged 12 and under.

Get more info about The Consumer Product Safety Act of 2008:
http://cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/cpsia.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Product_Safety_Improvement_Act