Hits a snag.
Probably just a glitch in the translation software.
Story at this site.
Mattel Recalls 774,000 Barbie, Other Toys With Lead
By Heather Burke
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Mattel Inc., the world's largest toymaker, recalled almost 774,000 Chinese-made Barbie and Fisher-Price products whose paint may contain excessive levels of lead, its third recall in the past five weeks.
The recall includes 675,000 Barbie kitchen, living room and other furniture items as well as 90,000 Fisher-Price Geo Trax Locomotive toys and 8,900 Bongo Band drums. No injuries have been reported, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said today in a statement.
Mattel recalled more than 20 million Chinese-made products last month in two separate instances because the toys contained unsafe levels of lead paint or had magnets that children may be able to swallow.
The toymaker, based in El Segundo, California, may have to find new sources of low-cost goods as China struggles to repair its reputation as an exporter. Mattel is pulling toys off shelves going into the holiday season, which accounted for 69 percent of 2006 sales. The world's most populous nation supplies 80 percent of the U.S. toy market.
Shares of Mattel, which also makes Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, rose 34 cents, or 1.6 percent, to $21.97 as of 4:25 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading before the recall announcement.
(Details on the products being recall can be found here.)
Last Updated: September 4, 2007 20:37 EDT
File under: A little something for the chem and physics geeks out there, without whom life would be much more dazzle-poor and crap-dense than it already is.
15 comments:
Is that Bush's "Real Doll(TM)", or just Laura looking for spilt xanax.
Ms. Coulter...in the Green Room...with the pipe. Did I win?
~BB~
I'm posting from work, because my home broadband has gone down like a Religious Right GOP congressman and the fuckin' cable Net company doesn't employ enough technicians for mine to get fixed before Friday. :(
Bollox Ref--wouldn't Bush's "Real Doll" look like Jeff Gannon? :)
[BTW, mine would look like Naru from "Love Hina"] *drool*
To paraphrase an old Mike Myers character, If it's Chinese it's CRAAAAAPPP! :)
I must return to my duties at the Ministry of Silly Walks. Ciao for nao.
plumbum is the technical name for lead.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Plumbum
hehehe.
and thank the good lord this shirt is available in toddler sizes. Wonder what kinda ink they use to print them? ha.
Looks like Barbie has a case of red ass, I didn't know she was into BDSM.
DG, IBW
'The Plumbum Barbies' is a great name FARB!
DG, Thanks for that link!
-skunqesh
Best wishes
I am SO disappointed in myself for not getting the "plumbum" reference until Anon. posted it.
Whoever told you that being a physics geek was dazzle-poor and crap-dense must not have been a real physics geek. It's actually great fun.
metawaddle if I wasn't so ramped for mysterious Bat Cave bloggers you would be making me totally hot right now.
[sound of joke going over my head]
hey, how bout them quarks!
The Plumbum Barbies - would most likely be an all female Led Zepp tribute band
When will they get the fucking message that we shouldn't be doing business with those goofs in China and that the work ought to be done here in the USA where at least the standards are federally regulated?
I mean, what's the fucking profit margin after bad PR, a frightened customer base and and massive, ongoing recalls are factored in?
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