To: Robert Mehrabian, Chairman, President and Chief Executive and Jeremy Neuhart, Corporate Media Contact
Stop PPG Industries from Killing Children in Cameroon
Corporate Ethics
PPG is globally commited to operating at the highest ethical standards. - Copied verbatim from PPG's website: http://www.ppg.com/en/Pages/home.aspx.
PPG's manufacturing and selling lead laced paint in Cameroon is not only immoral, but irresponsible and is clearly against its own corporate ethics!
STOP KILLING INNOCENT CHILDREN IN CAMEROON.
Why is this important?
Seigneurie, a subsidiary of PPG Industries, a Pittsburgh-headquartered company is manufacturing paint in Cameroon that they know contains unsafe lead limits.
According to a paint sample study done in Cameroon last year, nine of 24 Seigneurie paints bought in stores contained lead concentrations of more than 300 parts per million and eight of those had lead concentrations above 1,800 parts per million.
One Seigneurie paint, for metal application, contained 500,000 parts per million of lead, or half its volume, according to the paint survey by CREPD, a Cameroon-based nonprofit.
Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12037/1208431-114-0.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml#ixzz1lekfAgjr