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The safety of children's toys led all three newscasts as Mattel announced a recall of 9.5m items, all of which were manufactured in the People's Republic of China. Most of the problems were in Polly Pocket play sets. Their magnets are loose and, if swallowed, magnetic attraction can lacerate a toddler's digestive tract. Meanwhile Sarge from the movie Cars has been painted with toxic lead paint.

"Parents began a mad scramble sorting through the toy box," said a sympathetic NBC's Kerry Sanders as the long list of recalled items was released. Some of the recalls, CBS' Nancy Cordes pointed out, were made as long ago as 2002, so are "no longer on store shelves" but in "daycares and schools and homes--places that do not always get word of the dangers." ABC's David Kerley consulted with Chrissy Cianflone of Safe Kids Worldwide. She recommended that parents buy only age-appropriate toys, nothing too small; that they store each child's toys separately; and sign up for e-mail alerts from the safety recall Website. At NBC, anchor Brian Williams checked with in-house physician Nancy Snyderman (at the tail of the Sanders videostream) about the dangers of lead poisoning. "Good diets," was her advice. "Children who do not get enough calcium and iron absorb lead more readily."

"Made in China is quickly becoming synonymous with Buyer Beware," commented ABC's Betsy Stark (subscription required). "Safety problems may be the price Americans pay for low-cost goods from China--Chinese factories skimping on safety." For example, Stark quoted David Barboza, the Shanghai based correspondent of The New York Times on how manufacturing plants fool safety inspectors: "There is another factory nearby that is actually doing most of the production and this factory that they are visiting is the front factory." A pair of reports from Beijing by CBS and NBC took differing views of the government. There are 10,000 toymaking factories in China, NBC's Ian Williams told us, accounting for four out of every five toys produced worldwide. Williams quoted Li Yuan Peng, a state export official, as attaching "high importance" to safety problems. However, "although Beijing has beefed up its rules, they are not always implemented locally." CBS' Barry Petersen was not convinced that safety comes first: "China's leaders are focused on keeping the economic miracle powering on. Cracking down on factories that make exports means threatening sales and profits."

Andrew Tyndall 8/15/07 9:53:10 pm

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