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How Toys Are Being Made Safer - Thedailygreen.Com
Business  (tags: business, consumers, toys )

Susan
- 651 days ago - thedailygreen.com
USA Today outlines movement across the toy industry to remove potentially harmful substances from the products the most vulnerable among us play with and, importantly, gnaw on.
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Export Licences of 600 Toy Makers Revoked
Business  (tags: China, safety, toys, children, food, family, world )


- 713 days ago - chinadaily.com.cn
In response to food and toy scares, China launched a four-month crackdown on product safety, particularly toys and foodstuffs
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Made in China, Recalled in Britain | Business | The Guardian
Business  (tags: Made in China, world, recalls, environment, Mattel's, Chinese-made, toys, government, ethics, children, business, consumers, corporate )

TW
- 715 days ago - guardian.co.uk
The spate of recalls included Mattel's decision in August to withdraw 2m Chinese-made toys from Britain because they were decorated with toxic coatings. British Airways withdrew Chinese toothpaste from its in-flight pouches because it contained a prime in
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Toys With a Second Life
Business  (tags: toys, mattel, business, internet )


- 737 days ago - businessweek.com
Webkinz are the hottest things in toyland--and competitors have noticed. The little plush animals come with codes that activate an online version of the toy in a virtual "Webkinz World." At least eight other companies are trying to follow Webkinz's lead,
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Death By Toy
Business  (tags: children, china, crime, government, Death, toys, world, usa, consumers, americans )

TW
- 749 days ago - canada.com
Many of the playthings that stock North American shelves are made by Chinese workers under appalling conditions. Soft, cute, cuddly and made in China for the massive North American toy-buying market
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Super Mario Galaxy
Business  (tags: business, entainment, children, teens, video games, consumers, shopping, money, technology, toys )


- 764 days ago - smh.com.au
In the past decade, developers have struggled to reach Mario 64's lofty heights, let alone push the platform genre forward. But finally, Nintendo has delivered a sequel as entertaining and inventive as its 1996 magnum opus. This glorious galaxy of wonders
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California Sues 20 Companies For Toys With Unlawful Amounts of Lead
Business  (tags: americans, business, children, consumers, dishonesty, economics, economy, environment, investors, labor, market, marketing, markets, money, technology, toxins, lead, california, state, attorney, general, corporations, mattel, toys, manufacturing )

Ani
- 769 days ago - commondreams.org
Lead, known to cause cancer and reproductive harm, also can cause mental and physical retardation as well as behavioral and other health problems in children. In adults, it can damage the nervous system.
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Toy Containing Date-Rape Drug Pulled
Business  (tags: toys, date rape drug, China, recalls )

Ben
- 782 days ago - blogmyway.org
Millions of Chinese-made toys have been pulled from shelves in North America and Australia after scientists found they contain a chemical that converts into a powerful date rape drug when ingested. Two children in the U.S. and three in australia were hosp
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Investor Lawsuit Accuses Mattel of Deception, Insider Trading on Toy Defects
Business  (tags: Mattel, toys, corporate-greed, lawsuit )

PamelaLyn
- 810 days ago - iht.com
Attorneys for a Michigan pension fund alleged in a shareholder lawsuit filed Wednesday that Mattel Inc. has misled investors by delaying the reporting of defects in its toys to federal regulators,
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Aug. 14 - Mattel Recalls 19 Million Toys Sent From China
Business  (tags: mattel, children, recall, toys, lead poison, consumers, business, money, humans, interesting, world, media )


- 867 days ago - money.aol.com
WASHINGTON (Aug. 14) - Toy-making giant Mattel Inc. issued recalls Tuesday for about 9 million Chinese-made toys that contain magnets that can be swallowed by children or could have lead paint. The recalls includes 7.3 million play sets, including Polly
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You Can Tell It's Mattel, It's...Being Recalled - For the Second Time
Business  (tags: Mattel, imports, China, toys, recall )

RC
- 868 days ago - nytimes.com
US toy giant Mattel is on the verge of announcing a second major recall of imported products, said to include die-cast cars. One of the owners of a Chinese factory involved in the last recall apparently committed suicide.
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