Recalled Mattel toys topped U.S. legal lead limits
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Toymaker Mattel Inc's recent recalls involved toys that had nearly 200 times the amount of lead in paint as allowed by U.S. law, the company said in a letter released to a congressional subcommittee on Tuesday.
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Concerns about toy safety since last summer's recalls, along with worries about the economy, have made shoppers more cautious and have resulted in generally sluggish toy sales. No retailer has as much at stake as Toys "R" Us Inc., the nation's largest specialty toy seller. In an interview with The Associated Press, Chairman and CEO Gerald L. Storch discusses toy recalls and details what the retailer and the industry are doing to make toys safer.
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About 15,000 Chinese-made metal toy wagons sold at Tractor Supply Co stores are being recalled because the surface paint contains excessive levels of lead, the U.S. Consumer and Product Safety Commission said on Thursday.
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US branches of Toys R Us  recall 27,000 crayon and paint sets after the wooden packaging was found to contain lead.
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WASHINGTON - Leaders of the agency responsible for protecting consumers from faulty products said yesterday that Congress should increase their budget and power in the wake of huge recalls of lead-contaminated toys.
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The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating the timeliness of toy company Mattel Inc's disclosures before its most recent recall, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition on Tuesday.
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Mattel Inc. said on Tuesday it has recalled 11 more models of its Chinese-made toys globally, including eight pet and furniture playsets sold under its Barbie brand and three under the Fisher-Price name.
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Mattel admits most of the toys recalled in recent safety scares had "design flaws" and Chinese producers were not to blame.
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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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Walt Disney Co  will start its own testing of toys featuring Disney characters following recalls of Mattel Inc  toys found to have unsafe levels of lead paint, the New York Times reported on its online edition on Monday.
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NEW YORK - RC2 Corp. , a maker of Thomas &amp; Friends toy trains, and five other companies recalled about 670,000 Chinese-made products, almost all because of paint containing lead levels that may exceed US government standards.
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WASHINGTON -- Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful "date rape" drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in Australia were hospitalized after swallowing the...
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Toys and children's necklaces made in China were recalled Wednesday, including five more items from the popular Thomas &amp; Friends Wooden Railway product line, because they contain dangerous levels of lead
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BURBANK, Calif. -- Following three high-profile recalls by Mattel Inc. this summer involving millions of Chinese-made, lead-tainted toys, The Walt Disney Company will begin independently testing toys featuring its characters, company officials said.
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A congressional panel approved a bill on Tuesday that would cut lead content in toys and boost the funding and clout of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, following a wave of product recalls.
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With the recalls of toys by Mattel and others, the European Union is taking a second look at whether its safety regulations are adequate.
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Toymaker Mattel Inc on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys, saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally with "impermissible" levels of lead.