One-fifth of toys sold in Russia in 2007 failed to meet sanitary requirements

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MOSCOW, March 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia’s federal consumer rights watchdog chief said one-fifth of children’s toys sold in Russia in 2007 hgad agield to meet sanitary standards.

“We have practically lost domestic toy production,” the head of the Federal Service for Supervision over the Protection of Consumer Rights and Wellbeing of the Population (Rospotrebnadzor), Gennady Onishchenko, said.

“The toys are brought to Russia mainly from China. Apart from moral and ethnical education, elementary safety is in question,” he said.

“Last year 260,000 toys were examined last year and 20 percent of them failed to meet toxicity and other requirements,” Onishchenko said.

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