The safety of toys is a priority for parents and the United States government, now with stiffer Consumer Product Safety regulations regarding the materials used by toymakers globally, including a ban on the use of lead in, and required testing of, most goods made for children under age twelve. The Better Chronicles takes a look at how laboratories are helping toy manufacturers be compliant, with special guest, -  Clifford Brechner, Founder and CEO of Insight Laboratories, and the sophisticated technology that PerkinElmer provides for testing the levels of such elements as lead, phthalates and cadmium in toys, with guest, -  Leslie O’Carmody, Senior Director of Marketing Development at PerkinElmer.

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