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Study: Hundreds of toys tainted by lead

Kris Kringle may need to add medical gloves and a mask to his Santa suit this holiday season.

A new report by a coalition of environmental groups found that 17 percent of the more than 1,200 popular children's toys it tested contain dangerously high levels of lead and that 35 percent contained trace amounts of the harmful chemical, which could cause serious health problems.

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