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Guess what?
Yet another massive fatal toy recall from our friends over you-know-where.
Surprise!
From the AP
China-made kid's jewelry, toys recalled
By CHRISTINE SIMMONS, Associated Press Writer
Toys and children's necklaces made in China were recalled Wednesday, including five more items from the popular Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line, because they contain dangerous levels of lead.
RC2 Corp.'s "Knights of the Sword" series toys and some of its Thomas and Friends items, along with floor puppet theaters and gardening tools and chairs for children, were among the more than 601,000 toys and children's jewelry announced in the recall by the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
The recalled toys contain high levels of lead in their surface paint, and the necklaces and jewelry sets contain excessive lead in some of their metal parts.
Under current regulations, children's products found to have more than .06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall. The government warned parents to make sure children are not playing or using any of the recalled products.
This is the second recall from the Thomas & Friends product line after RC2 Corp. announced June 13 a recall of 1.5 million wooden railway toys. The company is recalling five items, totaling about 200,000 toys in all, of Thomas & Friends toys not included in the first recall.
"I don't think consumers have seen the end to lead paint recalls," said Julie Vallese, a spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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The recalls include:
• About 23,500 more necklaces, bracelets and pendants imported by TOBY N.Y.C. of New York. This expands the company's recall of jewelry sets announced on Aug. 22.
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• About 850 children's Spinning Wheel Necklace necklaces, produced by Rhode Island Novelty of Cumberland, R.I.
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• Happy Giddy Gardening Tools and Children's Sunny Patch Chairs, imported by Target Corp. of Minneapolis, Minn. The recall involves 350,000 of the toys.
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• About 200,000 Thomas and Friends Wood Railway Toys and 800 Britain's "Knights of the Sword" series toys, distributed by RC2 Corp., of Oak Brook, Ill. The five recalled Thomas and Friends items, sold nationwide from March 2003 through September 2007, include the all-black cargo car, toad vehicle, olive green sodor cargo box and all-green maple tree top and signal base accessories.
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• About 16,000 children's toy rakes imported by Jo-Ann Stores Inc., of Hudson, Ohio.
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• An estimated 10,000 Floor Puppet Theaters produced by Guidecraft Inc., of Englewood, N.J.
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"The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them."
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
“Americans will buy from us the poison with which we will kill them."
-- WalMart Happy Face
And in case you have no idea what the title of this little piece refers to…
CCR
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6 comments:
Great post!
This is a shocking # of recalls. When is it going to end? I fear that this is just teh tip of the iceberg as we get into the holiday season there’s going to be alot more.
I get auotmatic email alerts when there’s a new recall from www.leadtoyrecalls.com
But but but, they got them cheap!!!
BTW, excellent tune, I have always loved it.
Maybe we ought to get off the Chinese. We buy from them because their products are cheap. I don't believe for a second that when a toy is purchased with leaded paint that is not exactly what was ordered. Order shit, receive shit. The Chinese would have to be very stupid to put themselves into a position where they are responsible for the problem products. A friend was recently complaining that screws he ordered for woodworking would twist off. I asked him why he used them. Answer: they were more inexpensive than others available.
Is our childrens learning? No, because they have lead poisoning?
I am beginning to avoid any food, medicine, or toiletry--that is, anything that goes ON or IN my body--that does not say on the label where it is made--MADE, not DISTRIBUTED! I assume that if it does not say where it is made, it is probably made in China, which means it might as well have a skull and crossbones on it.
Ain't unbridled authoritarian capitalism just peachy?
I only hope our Second Gilded Age will be followed by a Second Progressive Era, with a Second New Deal and a Second Great Society thrown in.
My mother is a huge Wal-Mart fan and she keeps trying to drag me there. Then she gets mad at me when I refuse, and say, "You get what you pay for." She hasn't quite ever assimilated the knowledge that I'd rather have fewer nicer better-quality things than a whole metric craptonne of junk. She seems to think that the only way to behave is to have lots and lots of stuff, no matter whether it's crap or not, just so long as you can get it cheaply.
To be perfectly blunt, fuck that. I'm not spending a small amount of money over and over again to buy something that I'll just have to keep replacing, especially now that I have the money to buy high quality. (Got myself a set of stainless steel Kitchen-Aid cookware recently, 70% off. I could have gone to Wal-Mart and gotten another set of crappy ones, but why?)
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