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ANVISA meeting schedule to discuss regulation of cadmium in jewelry

11/25/2013

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Complaint about shipment from China to the metal has been taken by Fantastic Photo: Play / TV Globo

RIO - The National Health Surveillance Agency ( ANVISA ) will meet on Wednesday with the Ministry of Health , the National Secretariat INMETRO and Consumer ( Senacon ) to discuss the creation of rules for the presence of the metal cadmium in jewelry . Cadmium is a toxic metal that , when accumulated in the body , can lead to cancer . But , according to the agency , the consumer does not have to worry about . In a joint statement issued last Friday , ANVISA and Senacon said that after reviewing the report of the National Institute of Technology ( INT ) on the presence of cadmium in accessories - as complaint made by Fantastic TV program , Rede Globo , the last 17 days - concluded that "there is no imminent risk to health and acute or " consumer , and that there will be no recall of brand products.

Fantastic showed that 16 tons of jewelry - who arrived in China in two containers at the Port of Rio - contained large concentrations of cadmium . The cargo was intercepted on suspicion of tax fraud and the tests were ordered by the IRS to estimate the value of the products . On the occasion, said that ANVISA has not yet regulated the presence of heavy metal in jewelry .

According to the agency , the health risk is mainly by ingestion or by inhalation of cadmium and analyzed in parts , the presence of the metal is restricted to the inner layer of the product . Above it , there are two more layers of other materials.

The regulator also said that the world's population is exposed to cadmium , which is naturally present in oilfields in nature and in the burning of fossil fuels . Studies in the United States and Europe show that smoking , allergic and people with some kind of injury to the skin , may have the possibility of broader risk in contact with cadmium .

In the sample of jewelry collected by experts designated by the IRS , the concentration of cadmium ranged from 32 % to 39 % of the alloy . In countries like the United States , the level of cadmium in jewelry is only 0.03 % . In Europe , the presence of this metal can not exceed 0.01 % .

The United States began to study the presence of the metal in 2010 . The following year the limited presence of cadmium in jewelry . Europe also implemented the regulation in 2011 . According to ANVISA , the United States and Europe do not recall for jewelry made with the presence of metal.

According to the note from ANVISA and Senacon , 16 tonnes of jewelery intercepted in Rio de Janeiro will remain held until the completion of studies on the need to regulate the presence of metal accessories. The agency also said that the entire load of jewelery of equal validity be subject to analysis.


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