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What's wrong with the toys? It varies. Some of Mattel's Polly Pocket and Batman figures have tiny magnetic pieces that children can swallow. Such toys as Elmo and Thomas & Friends train sets may be coated in paint with toxic levels of lead...
Should parents worry? Yes, particularly if they have toddlers prone to putting toys in their mouths. At least one child has died from swallowing the magnets, which can clump together in the intestines. Eating lead paint can cause vomiting and brain damage...
...early August, Mattel's Fisher-Price division and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a recall of 967,000 toys, featuring characters like Big Bird and Elmo from Sesame Street and Dora the Explorer, because of excessive amounts of lead paint. The toys had been manufactured this spring and summer by Lee Der in Foshan...
...Quality, Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine announced that the company had temporarily been blocked from exporting. (A second company, the Dongguang-based Hansheng Wood Products Factory, was also slapped with a ban; it had produced 1.5 million wooden Thomas and Friends toys that had also previously been recalled for lead paint...
...will be true substance that, like anything in China, will trickle down and have an effect in the bigger market." But until that effect takes place, the drumbeat of product recalls looks set to continue: on Tuesday, reports emerged that Mattel would announce another toy recall, over lead-based paint traced to a different Chinese manufacturer...