Chapter 9, Point 10 ( part 3 )

The Toy Issues Follow The Pets

This issue about the use of lead paint by toys manufactured that do by some countries. In United States lead paint can not be used on toys. American-made toys are capitalizing on the moment, touting their lead-free and quality manufacturing processes.

For the manufacture of 70-80% of all toys sold in the United States are responsible by Chinese. In fact, toys manufacture in Chinese, like Mattel use high lead content that resulted from the paint used on toys. And as the result a division of Mattel , had to recall 83 million toys. The recall is the largest since 2000 when Fisher Price recalled 2,5 million baby swings because babies were falling out of the swings.

Actually, the lead-paint is used for infrastructure such as bridges and buildings. But in Chinese is use for the toys. The reason is the use of lead paint means 30% cost in paint supplies for a toy manufacturer in China. One Chinese plant executive said, “it depends on the client’s requirement. If the prices they offer make it impossible to use lead-free paint, we will tell them that we might have to used leaded paint. If they agree, we will use lead paint.

Finally, for this case the head of the consumer product safety agency, along with CEO Robert Eckert of Mattel apologized for Mattel failure to monitor its suppliers and indicated that Mattel had to earn back the trust of consumers. I just hopefully, they really can repair their system to produce the toys.

The act of that toy manufacture very, very bad. There are national standards on the use of lead paint in China, but no one follows them. It means they ( toys manufacturer) had break the law. Even the use of this lead paint on toy is can danger child. Toys manufacture don’t care about customers safety, also environmentally friendly. The only care to maximize their bonus and profit. We know China produces 80% of the world toys, it is clear how danger is for child in the world. There must be the conduct of federal law to control it, and resolved it with penalization or fine.