Mattel Recalls Nearly 1 Million Toys
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Mattel Inc.’s Fisher-Price division is recalling 967,000 Sesame Street, Dora the Explorer, and other children’s toys manufactured in China that may contain paint with “excessive levels”‘ of lead.
The recall includes 83 types of toys that were sold nationwide in stores from May through August at prices ranging from $5 to $40, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said yesterday in a statement posted on its Web site. No injuries have been reported, the CPSC said.
Other companies have recalled toys made in China this year including RC2 Corp., which in June asked consumers to return some parts of its Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway sets because the surface paint contained lead. Recent American recalls of Chinese-made products include toothpaste and car tires missing a traction strip.
“We require our manufacturing partners to use paint from approved and certified suppliers and have procedures in place to test and verify, but in this particular case our procedures were not followed,” Jim Walter, Mattel’s senior vice president of worldwide quality assurance, said in a statement posted on Mattel’s Web site.
