Lead Toy problem perspectives

In the past few months, Nancy Nord, the director of the Consumer Product Safety Commission has come under fire for being in bed with toy companies. This relationship, Democrats say, is leading to a lack of close inspection of toys, and to massive recalls of toys due to lead based paint, which puts children in danger.
Politics being the main agenda at this point, in most articles like this Washington Post article, the journalist is quick to point out Nord’s connection to the Bush administration. Democrats are also quick to rename the CPSC as “Can’t Protect the Safety of Children”. This is politicizing at its best, but does nothing to solve the problem.
Aside from slandering Nord, the Democrats called for spending more money to hire more product testers so more toys can be checked more quickly. It seems like a quick and easy solution, but requires more tax dollars.
Nord’s solution is to work with companies, not against them, and let the CPSC continue to do their job, but give more feedback to toy companies and let the companies do more policing of themselves. This doesn’t seem like the brightest solution, but has merit in a free market economy. You can be sure that Mattel’s execs are doing their best to figure out how to get lead free toys.
According to doctors, one of the best ways to reduce lead poisoning, is with good nutrition. My wife was listening or reading a program that mentioned that lead follows the same path in the body as calcium. If a child has insufficient calcium, the lead will quickly move to where the calcium should be, and take its place in the bone. This causes many long term problems, but would be solved if children had enough calcium in their diet (http://www.nsc.org/issues/lead/leadnutrition.htm).
Does this become a justice issue? Kids who most likely have the poorest nutrition, and less supervision which gives them the freedom to put toys in their mouths are the children of the poor. This could lead to a disproportionate number of lead poisonings to occur in children who live in poverty. One doctor apparently argued it would be cheaper to fund supplemental milk for poor children than it would to dump millions into the CPSC.
The three perspectives show that the problem is not simply funding or the director being in bed with companies. This could be an issue of haves and have nots, but that story rarely gets spoken on evening news.