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LOS ANGELES — Major national retailers, including Target and Gap, have agreed to all but eliminate the toxic metal cadmium in jewelry and other accessories they sell.
Starting next year, jewelry sold at stores in California must contain less than 0.03 percent cadmium — a soft, whitish metal that in high amounts can cause cancer and other harm.
Because of the size of California’s market, that effectively becomes a national limit — though it doesn’t carry the force of law in other states.
