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...Administration decided last week that eight years was long enough for its staff and its panels of expert advisers to spend cleaning out the nation's medicine chest. No fewer than 369 items, among them some of the most widely prescribed drugs, should be thrown out, said the FDA, because its investigators have determined they are not effective for their claimed purposes or are actually hazardous. The lengthy catalogue includes many items that are already being withdrawn by their manufacturers; on others, the companies are not prepared to accept FDA's judgment and they are fighting back...
Refund Threat. Though FDA will wait at least 15 days for replies from the makers before enforcing the prohibitions, the announcement served as a warning to the presently booming $2.3 billion-a-year toy industry. With five shopping weeks remaining until Christmas, sales are up as much as 12%-despite the general economic slump. Nevertheless, Government intervention, though limited, may well cause many buyers to be more cautious. For toys that are finally banned by the FDA, the penalty can be retroactive: a provision of the act requires retailers to refund the purchase price of a condemned toy; the store...
Most companies, however, are taking the prospect of tougher safety enforcement more gracefully. "We're just poor country boys manufacturing what we consider to be good toys," said an executive of Ohio Art Co., maker of the cap gun cited by FDA. "We're not manufacturing anything with the intention of hurting a child. We are concerned with safety." Actually, the industry has little to fear in the way of a general crackdown; the Government has moved with a caution bordering on lethargy. Since the safety statute was passed eleven months ago, FDA and its parent, the Department...
Molten Lead. In keeping with the benign attitude that characterizes the approach of many Government regulatory programs, and because the Toy Safety Act is ambiguous as to enforcement, the FDA has chosen to ignore the law's emergency provision. That provision could be used to end the sale of an item before a hearing. As it stands, even the four toys already cited will probably be around as long as retailers' stocks last-almost surely well past Christmas...
...groups want the four cited toys off the shelves by Christmas, as well as five additional toys that FDA refuses to take action on. Included are two poorly insulated stoves that reach temperatures of up to 600 degrees, a metal-casting set that can ignite paper or dangling sleeves, a crib mobile that can shatter in a baby's face, and a mechanical drawing toy with an easily breakable glass cover. Though makers of all five toys say that they have corrected the faults, Kaplan contends that stores are still selling the unimproved versions. "Toy models often have...