The Denver-based CoPIRG Foundation is taking on the fidget spinner over a couple of products’ high level of lead and its presumption that the toys are not meant for kids.

The national consumer protection group said its lab results showed high levels of lead in the ball-bearing fad on sale at Target stores across the country. CoPIRG said it notified the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Target and spinner distributor Bulls i Toy, but “they refused to address the problem,” CoPIRG said.

Sure. spinners are a rage with kids, but adults like them, too. That was federal regulators’ position when CoPIRG reported that the Fidget Wild Premium Spinner Brass and the Fidget Wild Premium Spinner in Metal exceeded federal lead limits for children’s toys. The Consumer Product Safety Commission considers these models “general use” products, however, not a “children’s products” for kids 12 and younger.

“Saying fidget spinners aren’t toys defies common sense, as millions of parents whose kids play with spinners can tell you,” CoPIRG Foundation director Danny Katz of Denver, said in a statement. “The CPSC, Target and Bulls i Toy need to acknowledge the obvious – that all fidget spinners are toys. So, Target needs to immediately stop selling the toys that contain high amounts of lead, and issue a recall for those that they’ve already sold.”

Target said researchers cherry-picked from an orchard of spinners.

“The two fidget spinners cited are clearly marked on the package as ‘appropriate for customers ages 14 and older,’ and are not marketed to children,” the retailer told The Washington Post. “As a result, the fidget spinners identified are not regulated as toys or children’s products and are not required to meet children’s product standards.”

CoPIRG Foundation called the position of the Target and the federal agency “absurd and unsafe.”

“Our staff found the high-lead fidget spinners in the toy aisles at four Targets around the country (Denver, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Tampa),” CoPIRG said in a statement. “The Target.com website even includes a statement that the Fidget Wild Brass spinner is for children ages 6 and up.”

Katz added, “The buck has to stop with someone. CPSC stands for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Now is the time for it to stand up for consumers. We can’t sit idly by while children play with these toxic toys – and yes, common sense dictates that these are toys.”

Lead poses risks to young children and can impair development and lower IQ and attentitiveness.

The CoPIRG Foundation called on “adults and children alike” to stop playing with fidget spinners and pressure Target to pull them off the shelves.

CoPIRG’s full report can be found by clicking here.

On its website, Bulls i Toy says of its Fidget Wild Ultimate Spinner, “Warning: May Induce Extreme Spinning.”