{"article":{"id":210504,"heading":"\u00bfDiabolic toys?","author":"Daniel Palacios","created":"2007-11-24 14:18:41","modified":"2013-11-11 00:50:18","last_modified":"Mon, 11 Nov 2013 07:50:18","article":"<p>Within the huge flow news from the United States, a situation has marked informative patterns, and actions \"preventive\" desperate in recent days. \r\n  The untimely withdrawal from the market of over twenty million toys from stores because of the high content of lead and other toxic substances in the paintings that cover, tension has once again to the American people. \r\nThe death of a child and the hospitalization of another hundred, due to intoxication with high levels of lead from toys make an intense national campaign.\r\nGreat American companies sell these products as Mattel Inc., Toys R Us Inc., among others, were recently sued by a state court in Ockland, under California law, Proposition 65, which requires manufacturers and retailers to adopt procedures to inspect products with the goal of ensuring that they are safe. \r\nFor their part, producers of the Asian giant recently confirmed the presence of a harmful element in a product line entertainment for children (1.4-Bitanediol), called Aqua Dots. The presence of this chemical was attributed to a jump of productive steps, which, as Asian representatives, is already settled.\r\nHowever, this event has several facets. China has historically been the largest producer of toys of world exports a year - more than 22 billion units in the entire planet-and therefore monopolizes the presence of this product in developed countries. \r\nIt is true that the lives of many children in the United States and the world was and is endangered by this unfortunate slip of the Chinese producers. But it is striking that on American soil has begun the withdrawal and ban all toy from China, whatever their form or purpose.\r\nNow they are being removed from the shelves any of the \"Made in China\": those with magnets because stem and children swallow, which shoot projectiles, which can injure eyes, battery chargers and power adapters, because these could lead to accidents in the minors. So, a simple question arises. Did not know these risks beforehand marketers Americans?\r\nTo some types of toys have submitted fatal irregularities is unforgivable, but this is reason enough to obliterate any trace of Chinese children's entertainment, whether or not risk? \r\n  In the United States only 10% of toys in stores is produced, and clearly this garrafal mistake has been productive as the ring finger to implement a campaign to sow uncertainty in the village and move the presence of Chinese toy .\r\nIt seems that the strategy of national panic, has been very effective in this nation, to remove obstacles from the path complicated, both in politics and in economics. \r\nYesterday it was the attacks of 11 \/ 9, after the mysterious anthrax in letters today, Chinese toys. What will happen tomorrow?\r\n<\/p>\n","contact":"shamacubano@gmail.com","link":"www.visorcubano.blogspot.com","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"The massive withdrawals of toys in the United States has many facets","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2007\/11\/210504.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":210545,"heading":"dear People's Army of China","article":"Why not also stop using radio-active steel from your scrap purchases to sell the American People in the form of eating utensils?\r\nHuh?\r\nAnd you need to hire another more literate English writer to work in your damage control articles.","author":"non consumeristic","parent_id":210504,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2007-11-25 16:55:49","modified":"2007-11-25 16:55:49","fileurl":""}]}