Posted on 08/22/2007 4:03:42 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3
Lead Concerns Cited For Chinese-Produced Toys
WASHINGTON -- More children's items made in China have been recalled because they contain high levels of lead.
The largest recall affects about 250,000 SpongeBob SquarePants address books and journals, manufactured in China and imported by Martin Designs. They have been recalled because paint on the metal spiral bindings can contain high levels of lead.
The books feature the SpongeBob SquarePants character on the front cover and a black metal spiral binding. The UPC numbers (80773007505 for the address book and 80773002260, 80773075501 and 80773007551 for the journal) are printed on the back covers.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued the recalls in cooperation with Martin Designs, which is based in Ashland, Ohio.
Consumers are advised to take the recalled address books and journals away from children. Consumers should remove the UPC as proof of ownership and contact Martin Designs at 1-866-898-0261 for a full refund.
About 66,000 spinning tops and about 4,700 pails painted with Thomas & Friends, Curious George, circus scenes or solid colors have also been recalled because paint on the wooden handles contains high levels of lead. The toys were manufactured in China and imported by Schylling Associates.
About 14,000 TOBY & ME jewelry sets, and about 7,900 Children's Divine Inspiration Charm Bracelets have also been recalled.
The jewelry sets are sold in a pink gift box with "TOBY & ME" printed on the front and was sold at T.J. Maxx, Marshalls and A.J. Wright stores. The charm bracelets have silver-colored charms and clear and pink beads that hang from a silver-colored chain. They were sold at dollar stores and other small retail stores nationwide.
No injuries have been reported.
Additional Resource:
Martin Designs U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Don’t eat the crabby patties.
Any word on what they want me to do with the three spools of solder sitting on my workbench?
Eeevil!
The Chinese would probably use it to make salad dressing.
Probably best sellers in the West Bank and Gaza.....
I remember when the Walmart trucks all had graphics that said Proudly Made In America.
Sam Walton must be spinning in his grave.
We quit buying at Walmart when we found out their crap was made in China using slave labor. Going on ten years now.
FYI....
“Sam was an advocate of importing. It was his vision,” said a retired senior executive, who was a buyer in Wal-Mart’s Hong Kong office in the 1980s, and who asked to keep his identity private. “Our first office was in Hong Kong, then Taiwan. Korea soon after. We’d visit factories, see how they store goods. You would look at every step of the process very carefully.”
“From the beginning, Walton had bought goods wherever he could get them cheapest, with any other considerations secondary,” writes Bob Ortega, author of the Wal-Mart history, In Sam We Trust. By the early 1980s, Ortega reports, Walton “increasingly looked to imports, which were usually cheaper because factory workers were paid so much less in China and the other Asian countries.”
“Mr. Sam,” the folk hero, who drove around the Ozarks in a pickup truck buying cheap goods for his early discount stores and who became the architect of Wal-Mart’s highly publicized “Buy American” campaign in the late 1980s and early ‘90s.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/walmart/secrets/wmchina.html
The New Yellow Peril...
I am not aware of what you’ve posted, but I’ll take your word for it. I’ll certainly look into what you’ve posited. Thanks.
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