China seizes on Mattel apology to emphasize safety
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China highlighted Mattel's apology over its recall of huge numbers of toys on Monday to press Beijing's claim that its exports are generally safe and foreign politicians and media have unfairly hyped quality scares.
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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  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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BEIJING -- Scanning the headlines in the Chinese press, it's easy to conclude that the global brouhaha over product safety is not about China -- but about America.
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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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Toy makers are instituting tougher quality controls in China and elsewhere to try to avoid repetition of the  recalls that damaged the industry last year.
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Analysis: The company admits that most of its toy recalls were due to its own design flaws, not Chinese manufacturers. Lesson: Mattel needs China as much as China needs Mattel
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Mattel Inc. CEO Robert Eckert sought Wednesday to tamp down public outrage over unsafe Chinese-made toys, acknowledging that his company made mistakes by not closely overseeing subcontractors in China.
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In the extraordinary apology, Mattel took the blame for design flaws and said it had recalled more lead-tainted toys than justified.
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The executive reportedly apologized for maligning Chinese manufacturers in the course of toy recalls, but the company said the remarks were misconstrued.
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Wal-Mart officials said yesterday they were asking toy suppliers to submit recent safety documentation or re-test their products in response to the wave of recalled merchandise from China that has cast a shadow over the upcoming holiday shopping season.
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A senior Mattel executive apologized to China on Friday for recent recalls of Chinese-made toys and said it took full responsibility.
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China's government has tempered this year's commemoration of Japan's notorious wartime massacre of civilians in the city of Nanjing, reflecting a drive to improve relations with Tokyo and avoid inflaming nationalist passions
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The world's leading toymaker, Mattel Inc, on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys, saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally that contain "impermissible" levels of lead.
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Recall systems for unsafe food products and toys went into effect Friday in China as part of a bid to improve product safety, state media said.
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The world&#39;s leading toymaker, Mattel  Inc, on Tuesday announced a third recall of Chinese-made toys,  saying it would take back more than 800,000 units globally that  contain &quot;impermissible&quot; levels of lead.
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Quick to blame its Chinese suppliers for a massive recall, the toy giant now apologizes for its own mistakes. Why Mattelâand other major American companiesâmust save face with China.