An estimated 100,000 youth hockey sticks manufactured by sports equipment giant Bauer are being recalled because of potentially dangerous levels of lead.
Health Canada announced Thursday that 13 Bauer stick models have tested positive for high levels of lead.
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The recall covers almost all the junior sticks manufactured by the Mississauga, Ontario-based company since 2004 in its main factory in China.
Random testing by Health Canada found lead in excess of its acceptable limit of 600 parts per million on the sticks.
The news follows an earlier recall of a Bauer brand of hockey stick last week, the Bauer Supreme One75. Nearly 8,000 of those sticks had been sold in Canada since October 2006, Health Canada reported.
The federal agency said it has not received any reports of illnesses related to the use of any of the recalled hockey sticks but warns that anyone in possession of one of the sticks should immediately stop using it and contact Bauer Hockey Corp. for a replacement product.
Dr. Bruce Lanphear, a physician and environmental health researcher at Simon Fraser University, told CTV News that ingesting lead can affect a child's intelligence and behaviour.
"Even at exceedingly low levels -- levels that a few years ago we thought were safe or innocuous -- we're finding that children's intellectual abilities are being affected. And there's also increased risks for behavioural problems like ADHD," he said.
The effects on individual children are hard to measure, Lanphear explained.
"But on a population level, you can see dramatic differences in a risk for ADHD or mental retardation."
With files from CTV.ca and CTV British Columbia's St. John Alexander
