We as parents always try to buy quality products and toys for our children, on many occasions we believe that brands provide us with that guarantee and we do not hesitate to pay a little more to satisfy our desire for quality and safety.
The truth is that it does not matter if the brand is prestigious or that it provides us with information on how they strive to produce, for example, quality toys, in the end there is always the economic benefit and trying to reduce costs and a way to obtain this The purpose is to manufacture toys in Asian countries, specifically in China.
Now Mattel, the company that makes Fisher-Price toys, has just contacted the entire North American network that distributes its products for remove almost one million toys that have been manufactured in China and that have been painted with paint that contains an excessive amount of lead, an element harmful to health. We can remember how lead can affect children's intelligence, you can read it in the post Does pollution affect children's intelligence? But returning to the issue in question, China has made headlines in recent weeks for all kinds of deficiencies in its products, some have found life to people and animals, no product escapes from Chinese precariousness, this situation should alert everyone countries and examine all the products that China exports meticulously. We would also go further vetoing any product until the country does not have the necessary organisms and means that adequately control the production of any product, as do European countries.
Mattel acknowledges that the problem detected in routine tests of the Commission for the Safety of Consumer Products has alarmed him (much more alarmed parents), especially since he has always thrown the great concern about manufacturing at four winds of toys and the exhaustive controls that it carries out to guarantee quality toys from where they come from. Well, we are sorry to say that the concern is not so much, since if so, those toys would never have reached the children. The photos that appear in this post are some of the toys that have been removed, in Mattel, you can access the complete list.
The toys will be withdrawn and the amount paid, but this tremendous failure has clearly shown that you can not even trust a brand with supposed prestige. If the high lead content of these toy paints had not been detected, Mattel would continue to commission the manufacture of toys in the Chinese market. There is no harm that for good does not come, we hope that they begin to value a little less economic benefit for the sake of children.
