Mattel recalls more Chinese-made toys

Recall: Fisher-Price toys

Toymaker Fisher Price is to recall almost one million Chinese-made toys over fears that their paint contains too much lead.

read::: Washington Post

The Little Engine That Could Poison

by Christian Warren

FOR decades, Thomas the Tank Engine and his fellow trains have been teaching children important life lessons. Now the plucky locomotives — especially the haughty and sometimes naughty James the Red Engine — are serving up important lessons about regulating environmental poisons in the global economy.

Last week, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that a toy maker, RC2 Corporation of Oak Brook, Ill., was recalling some 1.5 million Thomas & Friends wooden railway toys because their bright red or yellow coatings contain lead.

NYTimes article

read also::: Made in China Inc. blog article - Thomas the Tank - RECALL

Thomas the Tank---RECALL

RC2 Corp., maker of the Thomas the Tank Engine toys, warned parents to keep their children away from 1.5 million Thomas & Friends toys (joining a growing list of Chinese-made products to be pulled from store shelves for safety reasons) because the surface paint contains lead--- a toxin that's dangerous if swallowed.


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"Consumers should take the recalled toys away from young children immediately," the Consumer Product Safety Commission said in the recall notice.