Mattel alone has announced two recalls within the past month due to the lead paint issue.
If you haven't heard yet, a lot of my Dora toys contain lead paint.
Clearly, there are more hazardous products out there than just lead paint on toys.
The board's storied history also includes banning lead paint and requiring fluoride to be included in drinking water.
That's a major reason why Hasbro was largely unaffected by the toy industry's lead paint crisis in 2007.
If they keep selling us toys with lead paint, we'll stop buying them.
On Wednesday, the Michigan-based Ecology Center put out a report saying that 35% of 1, 268 toys tested showed traces of lead paint.
No toy testing is performed at U.S. ports, and the agency doesn't know what percentage of toys even receive testing for lead paint.
And about eight million or so were due to high levels of lead, and that exceeds the government standard for lead paint on toys.
Had the decision held, the industry would have been forced to pay billions of dollars to remove lead paint from homes across Rhode Island.
Consumer groups mainly see all the recalls of lead paint products as a sign of a flaw in the import system that needs fixing.
Mattel (nyse: MAT - news - people ) alone has announced two recalls within the past month due to the lead paint issue.
Mattel issued a safety recall for 1.5m of its Fisher-Price toys (1m of which are in America) because they may contain hazardous levels of lead paint.
Federal officials have also issued recent warnings about lead paint in toy trains, defective tires and toothpaste made with diethylene glycol, a toxic ingredient commonly found in antifreeze.
While lead paint in toys grabs headlines these days, fueling parental nightmares and hearings on Capitol Hill, parents would be wise to worry far more about other playthings.
Lead paint was used in millions of buildings throughout America.
For example, he had a blanket hold on all EPA nominees because he was upset that the agency hadn't put out I think it was a lead paint ruling.
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In other words, the issue of lead paint has developed into a more formidable political weapon since the trade imbalance with China started gaining more attention a few years ago.
Wednesday's hearing, which came a day after China agreed to the CPSC's request to eliminate the use of lead paint on toy exports to the U.S., produced few significant results.
The sources of these toxins and poisons are often easy to isolate: a leaking roof can cause mold, houses built before 1978 may have lead paint and plywood can off-gas formaldehyde.
Today, houses cannot be sold without lead paint inspections.
So the state of Rhode Island, with lead paint in 60% of its 415, 000 homes (the national average is 25%), changed tactics and brought a public nuisance case against Sherwin and two other past producers of lead-paint pigment.
All joking aside -- and I know you have a second question, but I just want to focus on this -- lead poisoning, a lot of it from lead paint, from older homes all across the country and all across the Midwest is something that we have to be more aggressive on.
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Enterprising trial lawyers convinced Rhode Island and several municipalities to sue lead-paint companies under the theory their products created a nuisance by spreading lead in housing where children could ingest it and suffer brain damage.
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