Um.. Where ARE those millions of recalled toys ending up?

[SoCalDem]

sent back to China, and resold to "dollar stores" in the USA?

"donated" poor kids in 3rd world countries?

"ground up" and re-formatted into "new" toxic toys they hope will slip through the cracks the next time?

given to Chinese children?

dumped into landfills? (pollution is pollution, no matter where it ends up)

Millions of toys have been recalled..they don;t just disappers.. they end up somewhere , in some form .

[MNDemNY]

1. Turned into "dumplings" by street vendors in China.

[Ian David]

11. The dumpling / steamed bun story turned out to be a hoax, btw. n/t

[SoCalDem]

12. I thought someone committed suicide over there, because of the story?

Is the guy still alive?

[Ian David]

14. 2 seperate stories: Cardboard-Stuffed Buns Hoax / Owner of Chinese Toy Factory Commits Suicide

Beijing Cardboard-Stuffed Buns a Hoax
Thursday July 19, 2007 8:01 AM
By ALEXA OLESEN
Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) - A freelance reporter for a Beijing television station has been detained for faking a hidden camera report about street vendors who used chemical-soaked cardboard to fill meat buns, local media said.

The report came amid a spate of real food scares involving toxic fish, tainted pork and egg yolks colored with a cancer-causing dye that have harmed China's reputation as an exporter and alarmed people at home.

The story, allegedly shot with a hidden camera, was first broadcast on Beijing Television's Life Channel on June 8 and then shown again on China Central Television last week.

It created a buzz on the Internet, and people flooded chatrooms with comments expressing shock and disgust. On YouTube Web site, the video had been viewed more than 6,000 times by Thursday.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6790192,00.html


Also:
Owner of Chinese Toy Factory Commits Suicide

SHANGHAI, Aug. 13 — The head of a Chinese company that was behind the recall this month of about a million Mattel toys committed suicide over the weekend, China’s state-controlled news media reported Monday.

Zhang Shuhong, a Hong Kong businessman and owner of Lee Der Industrial, a company that made toys for Mattel for 15 years, hanged himself in a company warehouse in Foshan, in southern China, The Southern Metropolis Daily said Monday.

There was no independent confirmation of the suicide. A person who answered the phone at Lee Der’s office in Foshan City, near Guangzhou, immediately hung up.

However, a spokeswoman for Mattel, which is based in El Segundo, Calif., released a statement Monday morning saying, “We were saddened to learn of this tragic news.”

The death is the latest development in a year filled with prominent recalls and product safety scandals involving goods made in China.



More:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/14/business/worldbusiness/14toy.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[SoCalDem]

15. Aaah.. So many Chinese..so little time

:)

[MNDemNY]

13. That's what THEY want you to believe.

;)

[Lather]

2. Um.. Where ARE those millions of recalled toys ending up?

Ebay. Cheap and a great deal.

[Heidi]

3. The Lounge? (nt)

[SoCalDem]

4. That would explain a LOT about the lounge

:rofl:

[Heidi]

5. It's only a theory.

But as a longtime Lounge diva, I believe it merits further investigation. :rofl:

[Donnachaidh]

6. I wouldn't go looking for bargains at flea markets any time soon.

You know they will find their way into the market. :grr:

[SteppingRazor]

7. The Island of Misfit Toys, of course. n/t

[SoCalDem]

9. De Plaaaane..De Plaaane

[truedelphi]

8. Having lived in Europe and occasionally missed my old American food staples

I was always amused that the cans of American food I bought had the "expiration" date that was long past due.

And this was wayback in Jimmy Carter's Presidency. (BTW people in Europe had to pay premium prices for those items - no $1 stores in Europe.)

[VP505]

10. They are on sale

in the bargain basement at FAO Schwarz Baghdad and Beijing.