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Bentex children’s clothes with Disney characters recalled for lead poisoning hazard

Bentex recalled on Wednesday about 87,000 children’s clothing sets in nine different Walt Disney Co. characters and themes for a lead poisoning hazard, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The clothing sets, made in Egypt and imported by The Bentex Group, of New York, contain levels of lead that exceed either the federal lead paint ban for the federal lead content ban. The sets were sold nationwide at stores including TJMAXX, DD’s/Ross, Burlington and Army & Airforce Exchange Service and on Amazon.com from November 2021 through August 2022 for between $5 and $25.

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