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State health council bans trinkets containing lead

By Stephen Smith
Globe Staff / March 13, 2008

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For decades, they have been a talisman of childhood: gaudy necklaces, whimsical rings, and other trinkets stuffed into gift bags at birthday parties and dispensed from battered machines outside the dime store. (Full article: 484 words)

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