• We are dis­put­ing the find­ings of Good Guide, and we are 100 per­cent con­fi­dent that Mr. Squig­gles, and all other Zhu Zhu toys, are safe and com­pli­ant with all U.S. and Euro­pean stan­dards for con­sumer health and safety in toys.
• Cepia CEO Russ Hornsby • In a state­ment defend­ing his prod­ucts from a report by a Cal­i­for­nia con­sumer group that says his company’s sig­na­ture prod­uct, the pop­u­lar Zhu Zhu Ham­ster, con­tains a chem­i­cal that might cause can­cer. The metal, anti­mony, “can lead to can­cer, repro­duc­tive health, and other human health haz­ards” if ingested at high enough lev­els, accord­ing to Good Guide, a con­sumer watch­dog group. Can they cause can­cer just because they’re so pop­u­lar? source

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