US recalls more China-made products for lead in paint

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

US recalls more China-made products for lead in paint
25 Oct 2007 16:30:52 GMT

(Recasts, adds Dollar Tree recalls, list of recalls)

NEW YORK, Oct 25 (Reuters) - A slew of products made in
China ranging from children's jewelry to cake decorations
were recalled on Thursday because they contain excessive
amounts of lead.

The recall of roughly 665,000 items announced by the
Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) includes about
38,000 Go Diego Go Animal Rescue Boats from Mattel Inc's
<MAT.N> Fisher-Price division.

The boats were sold at retail stores nationwide from June
through October, and the CPSC said surface paint contains
excessive levels of lead.

Also recalled were about 142,000 Halloween pails sold at
Family Dollar Stores Inc <FDO.N> from August through
October. The CPSC said green paint on the pails contains
amounts of lead that violate U.S. standards for lead paint.

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[Teaser]

1. Guess China is going to be executing more middle management

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[closeupready]

2. Shouldn't they be getting these products BEFORE they are put on the shelf???

It strikes me that this band-aid approach to consumer product safety - i.e., recalls - is a risky one.

[kestrel91316]

4. For some reason unfathomable to me, the US prides itself on NOT

requiring pre-market safety testing of imports........

[closeupready]

5. Also maybe a perk of having a "favored nation" trading status is

a sort of express lane treatment at ports of entry?

[KansDem]

3. Which reminds me, did Mattel ever apologize to the American people...

...for foisting on us tens of million lead-crusted toys from China? I read where they apologized to the Chinese government for "giving them the wrong specs," but never heard if they apologized to us for their attempted poisoning...