Ways That Are Dark

The New York Times reports:

China manufactured every one of the 24 kinds of toys recalled for safety reasons in the United States so far this year, including the enormously popular Thomas & Friends wooden train sets, a record that is causing alarm among consumer advocates, parents and regulators…The toys were coated at a factory in China with lead paint, which can damage brain cells, especially in children.

Given the recent scares of Chinese made pet foods, tires, toothpaste and medicines, this trend becoming increasingly alarming.

“These are items that children are supposed to be playing with,” said Prescott Carlson, co-founder of a Web site called the Imperfect Parent, which includes a section that tracks recalls of toys and other baby products. “It should be at a point where companies in the United States that are importing these items are held liable.”

The complete article at The Times is As More Toys Are Recalled, Trail Ends in China.

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