Government coverup of lead hazard in lunch boxes

The bad news is that some of the vinyl lunch boxes that kids use to bring their lunches to school contain levels of lead that are considered unsafe.
The even worse news is that the federal Consumer Products Safety Commission tested the vinyl lunch boxes, found out about these high lead levels, then released a statement in 2005 saying it found “no instances of hazardous levels” of lead in kids’ vinyl lunch boxes.
The truth only came out when the Associated Press filed a Freedom of Information Act request for records of the CPSC tests. (The agency had said they wouldn’t release the records to protect manufacturers’ trade secrets.)
The CPSC defended itself by saying that kids’ don’t put lunchboxes in their mouths and a lot of the food is wrapped anyway, so the high lead levels aren’t a problem.
So is the current US administration covering up for business and failing to give consumers adequate information about hazards? What do you think?
You can read the CNN story about this at http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/02/18/lunchbox.lead.ap/index.html