August 2, 2007 12:42 AM
Safety Alert: Fisher Price recalls nearly a million toys
967,000 to be exact.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Toy-maker Fisher-Price is recalling 83 types of toys -- including the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters -- because their paint contains excessive amounts of lead.The recall being announced Thursday involves 967,000 plastic preschool toys made by a Chinese vendor and sold in the United States between May and August. It is the latest in a wave of recalls that has heightened global concern about the safety of Chinese-made products.
Read full story here.
Find list of recalled items - specifically including many Elmo and Dora the Explorer - here.
HT to Alison.
Comments
This is so frustrating! Our oldest tested high for lead poisoning and it was a scary and humiliating process for us since we were so attentive to him and kept our house clean and fed him well, etc. Social services had to get involved and the county government came and inspected our house, etc. They never once mentioned toys (or bibs!) as a possible contaminant. It was always the paint in our 1800's house that they targeted (which was in good shape and had been painted over several times). I guess when I read stuff like this I feel that it's yet another area where the government is ... mind boggling. Wouldn't it make sense to make sure the paint was lead free before putting it onto toys in the first place???
Sorry for the rant.
Posted by: carol | August 2, 2007 2:44 PM
that is so scary! we had a few of these.
Posted by: k8 | August 3, 2007 6:23 PM
