Barbie Manufacturer Fined Record $2.3 Million for Importing Hazardous Toys From China

For an American company to knowingly import lead tainted toys , A 2.3 million dollar fine is nothing ! It should have been ten times that at least ! And for China Again using lead paint on products that they ship to the U.S. , They should never be able to import another Product Here again !

Epoch Times
California-based Mattel, Inc., and its Fisher-Price subsidiary will pay $2.3 million for knowingly importing and later recalling approximately 2 million lead-tainted toys. The penalty, imposed by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), is the highest ever given for violating import and distribution regulations in the country.

According to CPSC, Mattel imported 900,000 toys with hazardous levels of lead between September 2006 and August 2007. The toys were distributed to retail customers in the United States. Later, the “Sarge” cars identified as non-compliant were withdrawn from the market. The same happened to the “Barbie” toys, recalled in September 2007.

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