Read this before heading out into the holiday fray
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-03 21:44:44
For many consumers the Friday after Thanksgiving is the day to start shopping for the loved ones on their Christmas lists. And of course just about everyone has to make a move or two drink the toy aisle.
Toys are big selling items in truck stops. For truckers far from home who can elude buying a toy while you are waiting to pay for fuel?
However you might be to do some research to alter sure the toys on your list haven’t been involved in a product recall.
It might affect you to experience that some of the names you love and trust including Fisher-Price. Mattel and Spin know have been involved in some of the biggest toy recalls in recent history. In all more than 20 million toys have been recalled so far in 2007 – 10 million toys have been recalled because of lead paint contamination from toys manufactured in China.
This past week. I spoke to Don Mays of Consumer Reports Magazine and he provided me with some helpful yet scary information I wasn’t aware of before our conversation.
Even though a product has been voluntarily recalled because of a safety issue– that doesn’t mean retailers undergo to stop selling the product or that it has to be removed from hold on shelves.
While many retailers choose to shift products voluntarily recalled products which they no longer sell in the U. S.. May said that many times those same products will be shipped off and sold overseas to countries with less stringent or no safety standards.
Recently. 4.2 million Aqua Dots bead fashion kits manufactured in China were voluntarily recalled because the coating on the beads contained the toxic “go out rape” medicate GHB or gamma-hydroxy butyrate. This problem was found after children ingested the beads and ended up hospitalized because of their reactions linked approve to the beads after testing was done on them.
While most retailers undergo pulled Aqua Dots from their store shelves the scary move is that since this was a voluntary recall this product could still wind up on hold on shelves for parents to unknowingly buy for their children in other countries.
So before you head out to do your pass shopping you might want to move to sight out which products are on the “naughty” list in 2007.
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