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08-02-2007, 01:52 AM
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| | Fisher Price recalling 1million toys for lead | |
too much lead in Big Bird and Dora paint
I bet you'll never guess in what country the recalled toys were made.
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08-02-2007, 12:58 PM
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Fisher Price should be ashamed of themselves for contracting to a company that they did not oversee properly. They are making the big $$ on this and it's their responsibility to make sure the toys are safe.
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08-05-2007, 02:40 AM
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I was just psyched we didn't have any.
And it's not that uncommon... RoseArt had to recall a whole boatload of crayons not that long ago for lead. I'm actually surprised it's ONLY Fisher-Price. There HAVE to be way more toys out there in this situation. |
08-05-2007, 09:37 AM
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There was the recall of those train engine character toys in the past couple months too.
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08-13-2007, 02:38 PM
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08-13-2007, 03:25 PM
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I think that toy manufacturers should be boycotted if they can't police their products that are built elsewhere. Shame on them is too nice; hit them in the pocketbook where they are making millions more by using the cheap labor. And.....it will be a lot cheaper for the purchasers once they sell the idea to their kids  since a large percentage of toys are produced in China where they don't care to meet our standards. |
08-13-2007, 08:57 PM
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Calling for a boycott of Fisher-Price is a lot easier for parents whose kids are past the Elmo and Dora phase.
I'd much rather boycott Wal-Mart. If it wasn't for them driving the culture to cheap, cheap, cheap, would we be having this conversation? |
08-13-2007, 09:08 PM
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I'd rather boycott the contaminated FOOD and PET FOOD we get from China than the toys but that's just me, choosing those battles... |
08-13-2007, 09:15 PM
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LOL. But YOU have no NEED for Ehmo at your house! |
08-13-2007, 10:34 PM
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Just say, "No!"
To everything from China. I'm personally checking for Chinese made items not to buy (or something like that).
Even when little my kids would have "bought into" not buying toys from people who don't care if they are harmful to babies and children. |
08-13-2007, 10:49 PM
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Sandy, that's hyperbolic, and if your children really understood at TWO what a boycott meant, they must have been geniuses. My kids sure aren't that smart. If Butter loves Elmo, Butter wants Elmo. She's not really hip to the child labor practices. And they have a hippie mother who won't buy them the damn Juicy Juice because it's made by Nestle.
I don't think for a second that Fisher-Price truly doesn't care about children. They are a company. They are in the business of making money. And when consumers (that would be us) demand things stay at a certain price point, something is bound to suffer. There's a REASON why Barbies cost the EXACT SAME as they did when they were introduced back in 1965... quality suffers and they are made in Third World countries.
It isn't just toys, and if you think it's only China, you are fooling yourself. Odds are your bank's customer service is done in India. Your clothes are from Pakistan. Your shoes are probably not from here, nor are the sheets on your bed. You may as well not shop at Wal-Mart, Target... virtually anywhere. Most of the food you eat, unless it comes from a local co-op or farm market, comes from overseas. And as we saw in Minnesota, our own government isn't above cutting corners to save a buck... why replace a bridge with cracks if we don't think it's going to collapse TOMORROW? Let's wait a couple of years and see what happens.
My kids hear No plenty of times. I think it's one of the reasons why they are so independent and aren't particularly concerned with what their peers want/like/have. But Fisher-Price is actually owned by Mattel. Any idea how much stuff that puts off limits? And you really think MATTEL is going to care that a few people boycott their things because a production facility cut corners? |
08-13-2007, 11:08 PM
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Why are we boycotting Nestle?
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08-13-2007, 11:13 PM
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Formula marketing practices. 
That's one I can't abide by. They market formula in countries where malnutrition is an issue by telling mothers that it's better for their babies. Mothers do formula, but don't sterilize water. Or water it down too much. Babies get dysentery, or not enough nutrition from formula. Milk dries up, mom can't nurse anymore because her milk dried up. Babies die. Most of the formula countries violate the WHO guidelines to some extent, but Nestle has a tendency to just outright ignore them.
Total train of thought derailment, but I just found out this week that the UK bans ALL formula marketing for babies under the age of 6 months. No free samples in the hospital. No coupons, no nothing. I have nothing against formula, personally, but thought that would go over here like a lead balloon. There is a HUGE market here judging by the amount in samples and coupons I received ALONE. Anywho... off my Nestle soapbox. |
08-13-2007, 11:15 PM
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Quote: pippadaisy said
 Formula marketing practices.
Total train of thought derailment, but I just found out this week that the UK bans ALL formula marketing for babies under the age of 6 months. No free samples in the hospital. No coupons, no nothing. I have nothing against formula, personally, but thought that would go over here like a lead balloon. There is a HUGE market here judging by the amount in samples and coupons I received ALONE. Anywho... off my Nestle soapbox. | NYC Public Hospitals Eliminate Baby Formula Giveaways,
Ban Promo Materials in Labor Units to Encourage Breastfeeding
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It's extraordinary to me that the United States can find $700 billion to save Wall Street and the entire G8 can't find $25 billion dollars to save 25,000 children who die every day from preventable diseases.~ Bono |
08-14-2007, 12:15 AM
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That's WHO's Baby-Friendly criteria!!! That is so cool that all the hospitals in NYC are doing it!
I delivered at a Baby Friendly and it was a wonderful experience. You can still get formula, BTW... just have to have your ped or OB request it for you. |
08-14-2007, 11:23 AM
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They're now recalling some "Sarge" toys from the "Cars" movie, again for too much lead. Also, some Barbie and Tanner toys for having tiny magnets - I can't find information about those toys yet, but I bet it's that "dog eats poop" set that we all have been giggling about for months now.
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08-14-2007, 12:37 PM
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Quote: emeleel said
They're now recalling some "Sarge" toys from the "Cars" movie, again for too much lead. Also, some Barbie and Tanner toys for having tiny magnets - I can't find information about those toys yet, but I bet it's that "dog eats poop" set that we all have been giggling about for months now. | Mattel recalls 9 million toys - CNN.com
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08-14-2007, 12:44 PM
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OK, I think all of the kid's toys are being boxed up for the next few months! This is ridiculous.
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08-19-2007, 03:25 AM
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What really alarms me is the "excessive amounts of lead" that caused toys to be recalled, since ANY amount of lead in a child's toy is excessive. DH spent more than a year traveling from one major US city to another in an inner city blood lead level testing program which was first shrunk and then eventually cut out altogether during the Nixon administration. The chemist (DH), nurse and neurologist on the team all tested their blood lead levels for fun, and that's when DH stopped chewing on pencils and switched to ball point pens. His lead level was elevated, and there was still lead in the nice shiny yellow paint on the pencils back then.
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08-21-2007, 03:39 PM
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A U.S.-based workers' rights group said it found "brutal conditions" and labor violations at eight Chinese plants that make toys for big multinationals, and called on the companies to take steps for better standards....
Eighty percent of the $22.3 billion worth of toys sold in the United States were made in China
| Group finds China toy factory conditions "brutal" - Yahoo! News |
09-05-2007, 04:02 PM
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