Get the lead out.

AG Nixon is sponsoring an event in Columbia this Saturday where parents can bring in their kids' belongings to have them screened for lead content. It's free and quick - there's a scanner that looks like a police radar gun - the operator will hold it on the item for about 30 seconds and get a reading as to whether the thing has lead in it. Bring toys, cups, bibs, plates - anything likely to come in contact with a young child's mouth. Young = roughly age 6 or under.

Columbia Public Library on West Broadway from 10a - 1pm. We did one in St. Louis in January - we had 80 people bring 300 toys, and about 10% of them contained lead.