Lawmakers Say Mattel Broke Word on Lead
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Members of Congress sent a letter to the chief executive of Mattel, accusing the company of not living up to its promise to keep lead-tainted toys out of childrenâs hands.
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Some lawmakers on Capitol Hill are criticizing the FDA for not adequately overseeing a British plant making flu vaccine for sale in the United States.
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WASHINGTON - Grim-faced and humble, federal regulators and toy companies had no shortage of solutions for a rash of toy recalls that have left parents anxious and Congress angry.
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A House Democrat said Wednesday a Republican committee chairman broke House rules by mailing more than 175,000 fliers touting a Bush administration decision to keep Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks open to snowmobilers.
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A House ethics panel has concluded  that Republicans failed to adequately respond to warnings about  a lawmaker blamed for the Internet sex scandal that shook the  U.S. Congress this year, a source said on Friday.
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U.S.-based toy giant Mattel issued an extraordinary apology to China on Friday over the recall of Chinese-made toys, taking the blame for design flaws and saying it had recalled more lead-tainted toys than justified.
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The Senate may vote as soon as next week on a bill to reform product safety regulation after months of recalls of shoddy goods, many of them toys made in China, said a key lawmaker and Senate aides on Thursday.
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After a year in which American parents discovered Elmo was tainted with lead, Polly had dangerous magnets in her pockets, and one of this season's most sought-after toys was laced with a coma-inducing chemical, Congress is going home this week without reforming the nation's consumer product safety...
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Democratic lawmakers said Thursday a report by The Associated Press raised "serious questions" about test methods conducted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission for unsafe amounts of lead in children's vinyl lunch boxes.
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The Toy Industry Association said on Thursday a proposed New York City Council bill restricting the sale of toys containing phthalates "is not supported by science" at a hearing before the council's Health Committee.
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A top lawmaker assailed the US Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology program today, following a staff investigation of the $10 billion homeland security project.
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Toy firm Mattel recalls 55,000 Chinese-made toys over lead contamination fears, the US government says.
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Mattel  has only itself to blame  for a huge toy recall that has stoked global alarm about  Chinese-made goods, state media said on Thursday, charging that  a slew of foreign safety scares had exposed a protectionist  agenda.
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The head of Mattel will appear in front of a Senate panel, along with the CEO of Toys "R" Us and the acting chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission
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China needs to effectively address its product safety problems, a U.S. lawmaker said Tuesday as the country launched a campaign to weed out unqualified manufacturers amid a global recall of Chinese-made toys.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety  Commission is investigating the timeliness of toy company  Mattel Inc&#39;s  disclosures before its most recent recall,  the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on  Tuesday.
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China needs to effectively address its product safety problems, a US lawmaker said yesterday as the country launched a campaign to weed out unqualified manufacturers amid a global recall of Chinese-made toys.