Ask HN: what do you think about dangerous additivies in kids gear?Yesterday I went shopping for a music box for my soon to be born child. At home we found a review of a similar music box from the same manufacturer, which got bad grades for containing aniline in a surface exposed to touch (toxic, absorbed through the skin).I am also reading "ecological intelligence" (by the "emotional intelligence" guy), going on about similar topics.In general, it seems very hard to find anything that is not polluted. I would be curious how smart people from HN think about this problem.Is it maybe just overblown hysteria by some "treehuggers"? Perhaps a little toxin here and there won't kill you, not even if you are a toddler. Somehow most of us grew up mostly OK, and chances are 20 or 30 years ago the situation was even worse. There were probably even less "watchdog companies" around to at least curb the problem a little bit.On the other hand, a lot of it seems just superfluous, which makes it extremely annoying to me. It's one thing to add preservatives to colors a