Major Fisher-Price Recall Due To Dangerous Levels Of Lead

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Anyone else see another Chinese offical being sentenced to death?
 
This reminds me...

You know at Target those things at the front of the store that are $1? A lot of them, made by a certain Chinese company, have notices on the back that they contain lead.

I also bought an optical mouse made by GE. There was no indication on the packaging, but when I opened it there was a tag on the cord that it contained lead, so I returned it.

Isn't it illegal to put that in things anymore?
 
'Upton Sinclair' might prove a little more difficult to translate.
 
Argy said:
I also bought an optical mouse made by GE. There was no indication on the packaging, but when I opened it there was a tag on the cord that it contained lead, so I returned it.
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I was just given a GE mouse that had the same tag on the cord. It had a ball in it though. It wasn't optical. I asked my dad about it because it seemed weird. He just said it was probably a warning for pregnant women and that there wouldn't be enough to hurt someone else. =/
 
wayc said:
I was just given a GE mouse that had the same tag on the cord. It had a ball in it though. It wasn't optical. I asked my dad about it because it seemed weird. He just said it was probably a warning for pregnant women and that there wouldn't be enough to hurt someone else. =/
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Just don't chew on it.
 
Haha, okay. XD I don't use it that often anyway. It's for my back-up computer. I use an optical mouse from Microsoft most of the time. It's also made in China, but then again, what isn't? XD
 
It seems like I remember the tag saying you should wash your hands after using the mouse.

Yeah fucking right!
 
I swear that this is a little stupid because I know I remember Fisher Price having a recall for the same thing some few years ago! If so, the fact that they haven't learned anything makes me not want to patronize them for any children's goods period.
 
It's not just them. This is merely the latest in a string of quality issues with Chinese goods (remember the dog food from a few months back? The toothpaste from about a month ago?). And the Chinese are only partially to blame. American companies should be forcing higher quality standards from the Chinese companies they do business with. Play a little hardball, for crying out loud. Demand that the products not be filled with lead, poison, or metal shards. You'd think that would be common sense, but obviously not.
 
Well I'm not going to instantly think that that will give an instant solution. I think that more regulation is better, but there have been other cases with China where things have slipped through the cracks so I'm not sure if it won't stop stuff like this from happening again.

I also don't think Boycotting all Chinese products would help either (like someone suggested in another topic) as I don't believe it is right to punish all for the wrong of some. There are tons of products made in China, and not all of them have had these problems.
 
Bumping this back up, because apparently the lead toy maker for the Chinese company involved in this has committed suicide.

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Liu said Zhang hanged himself on Saturday, according to the report. It is common for disgraced officials to commit suicide in China.
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"The boss and the company were harmed by the paint supplier, the closest friend of our boss," a manager surnamed Liu was quoted as saying.
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I seem to think staying alive and making sure this never happens again would have been a better way to make up for what happened, but at least he actually felt bad. Nice to see a manager who actually cares.
 
Unless China starts bucking up, I have a feeling that we will be seeing a massive shift of factories owned by the developed world from China to other developing countries, such as Thailand or India, very very soon - and I don't see any sign that China is doing so.
 
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