Popular Kid's Toys Loaded with Toxic Metal

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World trade needs to be regulated effiiciently so that this kind of thing doesn't happen. Toxic metals? Haven't we been through this drama before???

The Chinese worker is not the problem. It is their Government or owners of the businesses that bypass Global standards. This is not isolated incidents. The World has been flooded with inferior quality products from China, mostly low end commodity products, or fake drugs, that are worthless, yet are fostered on 3rd World countries. Come to Africa to see how a corrupt regime in China works hand in hand with corrupt African regimes to dump the most worthless products in the World on an unsuspecting populance.

We are only hostage/slave/fools if we continue to buy these "products." Don't bother trying to criminalize and blame these big corporations. We invented these monsters and we can un-invent them. Just don't support them anymore. Back away slowly. Don't make eye contact. They will turn and vanish into the thin air from which they were born. These creatures survive on currency alone. Starve them. It will take an enormous will for us to break our addiction to money and stuff but it is You/Me/We/Us who can be the only ones to do it. Not a government. Not a religion. Me and You. Think about the next dollar you spend. Where did it go?

1. Do you people REALLY think poor standards are limited to Chinese exports alone? That somehow goods made in Vietnam, Indonesia, or Bangladesh are any better?

2. Do you have some problem with China lifting HUNDREDS of MILLIONS of people out of dire POVERTY within the span of a few DECADES? These past few decades have witnessed the GREATEST proportion of mankind being lifted out of poverty that HUMAN HISTORY has EVER seen. It is absolutely unprecedented—America took about a CENTURY years to produce comparable results.

And yet all you people can do is bitch about a few isolated incidents of generally non-fatal poor manufacturing standards. If you want high quality goods, FORK OUT MORE MONEY YOU CHEAP BASTARD! Americans have ALWAYS had the option not to buy Chinese goods, so if you *do*, DON'T blame China for catering to American demand. Would YOU, with your SUV's, big-screen HDTV's, iPhones, MacBooks, yadda yadda REALLY have the *audacity* to go face-to-face with a poor Chinese factory migrant and tell him to stop working to support his family, because your perfect standards of safety outweigh his family's right to be able to put food on the table?

We have to be our own and our children's consumer advocates. We can not assume everything sold is safe. Protect your own. If people don't buy this garbage, and say no to them; it will stop. Pay attention to what's important: your family. Their health and welfare. 'Not how popular they are because all the other kids have that cheap Chinese garbage. Be an educated consumer. Yes, it takes time but what's more important than your kids, grandchildren?

The real problem here is consumerism. Tons of people mindlessly working jobs they hate to buy shit they don't need!! As stated before: Don't hate China for producing this garbage hate our government for selling us out to the lowest bidder and allowing this trash to be put on our shelves. Every time you reach in your wallet you make a vote, so make an effort not to buy goods made in China. Also we can thank NAFTA for eliminating goods manufactured domestically. The same agreement which Obama claimed he would repeal during his campaign and then never mentioned it once elected. Even during the election when he was asked by Canadian officials about his stance on repealing NAFTA his reps stated "Do not worry it is only campaign rhetoric" It seems we all bought into his BS rhetoric!

Heh, so apparently WalMart is the high-tech version of a Chinese opium den, except the buzz isn't quite as good when ingesting lead or cadmium (although the end-result of brain damage is the the same).

no surprise here. Just yet another toxic product from China.

Unfortunately this is the reality we live in. What company in the history of the world has taken a precedent in putting safety over bottom-line? Nothing is ever changed until we pull 5000 collective teeth from our government to outlaw the damn stuff. There's 100's of dangerous chemicals used in everything from food to make-up only a thimble full of which have some regulation.

They all cry China but it's our companies that say, "Hey! Make this crappy bauble as cheap as physically possible!" Cadmium is #7 most dangerous? Well let's regulate it. Then they'll move on to #6 or maybe even invent a whole new cheap poison to set the bar in autism rates.

Actually... There is one company that has taken an interest in safe materials; Apple. Their new laptops from what I hear can be composted up and eaten for dinner or something. But of course you have to pay a hefty special premium for that extra luxury.

You get what you pay for.

Also, the most decimating blow you can give to the Big Industry is to stop your cash flow, and stop your friend's cash flows.

Money speaks louder than your child's agonizing screams of pain from the ulcers lining every half inch of intestine.

We are hostage, now to China's demand for a market for sub-standard or non-regulated goods. Our leaders/politicians were bought like Spaniels at Petsmart and we are forced to suffer the consequences.

look on the bright side... mattel, among other companies is saving 2 bucks on production costs...

y the hell can't we get american made anymore, or even the more efficient japanese made

Seems fair to me: they buy worthless U.S. Treasury bonds and toxic CDO's from America, and we buy toxic toys from China.

What does the second paragraph have to do with the article?

Maybe *that's* why this was deemed un-newsworthy.

Anyways, my laptop was made in China, and aside from its low battery life, it's been working like a charm for over two years. My laptop bag was made in China, and it's durable and reliable. My iPhone was made in China, and it's been working beautifully. Ditto for just about everything else I own.

Econ 101: Demand drives supply—if you buy it, don't blame them for making it.

criminal charges could be filled against wall mart and the dollar stores for selling poison to kids. this is sickening, it's like handing out small pox infected blankets.

a list of everything not Chinese will be much more legible...

China poised to seize world's export crown
China Daily - Ding Qingfen - ‎2 hours ago‎
Standard Chartered predicted export growth for China will "range from 10 to 15 percent from January to March," he predicted. Dong Xian'an from Industrial ...

CHINESE PRODUCTS. We need to get off the Chinese knock-off, cheap-junk crap quality - We need to drop their shit.

Someone ought to make a running list of Chinese made items - so they can be boycotted. It would be most everything you can buy.

I am so sick of Chinese garbage being dumped onto our shelves. And why am I not surprised that Wall Mart would be brought up in an article like this. It's all one big f*%$ing joke. Too bad so many Americans are so worried about saving a nickle that they overlook this shit so easily.

Scary! Thank you for posting.

It's official, the censorship I receive now is not being able to add articles to the "News" section. I thought an MSNBC article focused on the health of our children was newsworthy, but I guess that's a conspiracy too.