More Fisher-Price Toys Recalled

(AP)  Mattel Inc. recalled an additional 38,000 "Go Diego Go!" toys Thursday as part of a larger recall of 665,000 lead-contaminated children's products, a government safety group announced.

The nation's largest toy maker was at the epicenter of a consumer-safety storm in August when it issued two major recalls for lead-tainted toys and toys with small, powerful magnets that can cause intestinal perforations if swallowed.

At the time of the Aug. 14 worldwide recall of 18.6 million toys, Mattel chief executive Bob Eckert predicted more recalls would occur as a result of stepped-up oversight and testing.

Thursday's recall involved 38,000 orange and yellow Go Diego Go! Animal Rescue Boats, manufactured in China and imported by Fisher-Price. Surface paint on the boats contain excessive levels of lead.

Several Diego toys were included in the Aug. 2 worldwide recall of 1.5 million Mattel toys. The company is based in El Segundo, Calif.

Lead is toxic if ingested by young children. Under current regulations, children's products found to have more than .06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.

Consumer Product Safety Commission spokeswoman Julie Vallese said the recalls are due to the increased scrutiny promised earlier this summer.

"The CPSC, as well as manufacturers, continue to look for products that may violate the lead paint standard," she said.

The CPSC also announced Thursday recalls of 627,000 other Chinese-made toys from various manufacturers that are contaminated with lead.

The other toys include football bobble head cake decorations, Halloween pails, Shrek the Third and Spiderman 3 flashing rings, children's jewelry and toy gardening tools.

Vallese reminded parents that the effects of lead are cumulative and that the biggest risk to children remains lead paint in homes.

"Parents should really keep the recalls for lead paint in perspective," she said. "These products are being recalled because they violate the law."

Representatives from Fisher-Price were not immediately available for comment.

[emma915]

These are American companies in China who moved there for cheap labor and the ability to "break American rules" to produce their products. These are American companies who moved America''s jobs to China and put Chinese people to work for pennies, then charging us big bucks to buy their junk. These are American companies apologizing to China. Wake up folks! STOP buying those toys!!

[houstonmac]

also, this is not some ignorant political concern on left and right, its a matter of american business putting americans in harms way.

[houstonmac]

i whole heartily agree with psk123. the chinese are not to blame, the american toy comapanies are to blame. they could very easily make the products in the states where it would create more jobs for americans. instead theyre made with cheap labor where human rights are not much of a concern. it maybe not the greatest of jobs but it would be a step in the right direction. i feel in this great land i proudly get to call home, we need to be more self reliant. get the homeless of the streets and give them jobs making toys for crying out loud. but again, it would probably cost too much so we would resort to busing illegals in to have them handle the job. some things are backwards. the dark backwards...

[watcher269-2009]

Lead is toxic if ingested by young children. Under current regulations, children''s products found to have more than .06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.

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Doesn''t the Bush administration want to increase the lead percentage to 1.6 so that the Chinese materials won''t be subject to recalls? And the Whining liberals who want to protect the children can''t even pass a kids health plan. See, Bush''s stradegy is - if you change the numbers - then it''s not dangerous anymore. Problem solved!

[myidoncbs]

Recently, one of the commenters on CBS stories said "debt is not a problem for governments". Well, here''s one BIG problem:

So much of our debt is owed to China that when Chinese makers of toys for an American company poisoned the toys with lead paint and the toys had to be recalled, ***the American company apologized to China*** for recalling them! The US wants to keep on borrowing from China, so we had to make sure that they weren''t "offended" by our refusal to kill thousands of our children!

And that idiot thought there is "no problem" with all this debt GeeWhizBush abnd the GOP have created for us!

[greeneyes222]

Time to mark Fisher-Price off the Christmas lists.

[psk123-2009]

So when do they plan on actually MAKING toys in America instead of importing them from China? There is no excuse to put profits over our children.

Consumers never did see any savings from these imports, but the companies sure did see a huge increase in their profit margins.

[hypnotoad72]

Mattel, the same one who apologized just a few weeks ago?

Color me confused.

[Krazcarl]

China makes quality products for your children aren''t you glad you were cheap?