Posts tagged toys

• The Dangers of Lead for Children

  Jessica Smagacz | December 27, 2008 3:41 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  The Consumer Product Safety Improvement was passed in order to tighten the restrictions on the amount of lead present in children’s toys. Hopefully this act will lessen the amounts of recalls...

• Mattel Paying out $ 12 Million to participating US states because of Lead found in Toys

  Jessica Smagacz | December 17, 2008 10:59 AM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  US officials said Monday that Mattel, the huge US toy company, will pay 12 million dollars to US authorities because of last year’s recall of two million Chinese-made toxic toys. These toys...

• Banned Toys can Still be Sold after Ban is Passed

  Jessica Smagacz | November 20, 2008 9:18 PM | 0 CommentsAtlanta, GA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  This past August Congress passed a consumer safety bill that Liz Szabo from USA Today says is “a sweeping bill.” The bill bans phthalates (chemicals) in products for children under the...