Just read this in the news during lunch today;
 
 
China bans lead paint on US toy exports
WASHINGTON - China signed an agreement Tuesday to prohibit the use of
lead paint on toys exported to the United States. 

Unveiled at the second joint U.S-China summit on consumer product
safety, the pact was negotiated in the wake of the recalls of millions
of playthings decorated with paint containing the toxic metal.

China has faced stiff pressure this year after an array of its exports,
including toys, pet food ingredients, fish and jewelry, have been
recalled over health and safety concerns.

In the pact, Beijing also pledged to step up inspections of its exports
and take other steps to ensure that those products meet U.S. standards,
said Nancy Nord, acting head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission. That will include joint efforts by the two countries to
increase understanding of those standards among manufacturers and
exporters.

The absence of such an understanding allowed paint suppliers to provide
lead paint to companies making toys sold by Mattel Inc. and other
companies, said Chuanzhong Wei, vice minister of China's General
Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. Lead
paint has been banned on toys made in the U.S. since 1978...

 

Give me a 'friggen break!! China's Vice Minister is trying to say that
his country didn't know that we don't want lead paint on our childrens
toys? What's next; "Oh sorry United States, we didn't know that you
didn't want radioactive contamination in the baby formula that we export
to you...".

This is one of those things that make you go hmmmmm...

Steve Gregory

 


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