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not long after the first toy scandals broke, the CEO of Mattel went to China and apologized to China because it was a US design flaw in the toys and not a problem with the Chinese factory.
As I recall, it was a problem with lead-based paint. Now, how long has the campaign against lead-based paint been going on in this country? Decades? Anyway, we're supposed to believe that Mattel "forgot" to tell the Chinese manufacturers that they were not to use lead-based paint? Yeah, sure...:eyes: Maybe Mattel just didn't care and let the Chinese do what they wanted anyway. Maybe Mattel didn't have "design specs" for the Chinese to follow and simply bought whatever it could from them. But I seriously doubt Mattel provided design flaws to the Chinese.
When this story broke, I heard that it was a diplomatic move on the part of Mattel to allow the Chinese to save face and to insure that Mattel kept doing business with China.
But I never believed it was about "design flaws."
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