14 DAY TRIAL // Tablets might be the children's most wanted gift this holiday season, but is it a really good idea to oblige your little one’s request?
A new study published by the Michigan Network for Children’s Environmental Health released some disturbing information about some kiddie tablets currently on the market.
The team tested four tablet products, the LeapFrog LeadPad 2 Explorer, Fuhu Nabi Jr, Kurio touch 4S and the VTech Inno Tab 3 (in total 104 samples) and found the slates contained lead, PVC, chlorine, arsenic and hazardous flame retardants.
But don’t be alarmed, these chemicals are contained inside the tablet per se, so they shouldn’t affect the child’s well-being. The only concerns expressed here is that the tablet manufacturing processes might affect the environment.
These harmful substances can pollute throughout the device’s life cycle and afterwards, when they are transformed into the very problematic e-waste.