<![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy - Consumerist Comments]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> I honestly don't think think that some of these lead paint recalls are doing anyone any good, but when it comes right down to it,

How bloody hard is it to make a toy without lead in it?

Comeaja

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Considering the lead based paint chips we all ate as kids, despite all the asbestos shingle and insulation dust we breathed, most of us turned out fine. There's always a few bad eggs, anyway.
Weren't our mothers told that Science could make breast milk better than her own body? Turns out that was a bunch of crap, huh?
Now we hear that Nalgene leaching gives you brain damage, Soy products will make you homosexual, and Thomas the tank is a lead death toy. All we hear about is that ADHD, ADD & autism are on the rise, but is it our environment or better testing? Is it lower inclusion standards or faster labelling from doctors?
Everything in moderation.




jirocpa

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> When my friend needed to buy toys recently for his nephew and niece, I pointed him to fabulous wooden toys made in Germany. (There are some great Swiss ones, too). You can bet that they are safe. I refuse to buy any children's toy coming out of China. Too many incidents for my taste, and besides, why not spread all that manufacturing around a bit? Support other countries (including our own!)

(Always check that the toy was MADE in the country of choice, not just that the company is a German company (for instance)... other countries use China for much of their manufacturing as well.)

inkvision

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> WTF: Does China have a freaking lead dunk tank down at the docks? I couldn't find that much lead if I tried.

tadowguy

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> @burgundyyears: That last sentence should be STOPPING the routine soaking of houses and children's toys in lead-based paint has certainly fueled its decline.

burgundyyears

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> @ncboxer: Nah, just back in your day, lead was safe and friendly. Oh and cuts and bruises and hospital visits improved your character.

Blood lead levels of Americans have decreased dramatically in the last 40 years or so. A quick google search yielded this: [media3.washingtonpost.com]

A great deal of this doesn't have anything to do with toys (see: the unleading of gasoline), but routinely soaking houses and children's toys has certainly fueled its decline.

burgundyyears

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Yes, I too had all this stuff when I was a kid, but I think it was safer then. Nowadays, all the big toy manufacturers outsource everything to the lowest cost factories they can find, in places like China or India. Those factories also outsource toe even lower cost factories. The remote factories don't have the regulations that we do. When something big happens, the toy companies blame the remote factory. It saddens me to think of all the crap we pass off as great quality.

ncboxer

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> This lead scare is the biggest scam of the year!
There was lead in all our toys when we were growing up and we somehow managed to survive.

ATTENTION PARENTS: Supervise your kids and don't let them eat their toys. There is more harm in the processed food you keep feeding your kids.

This lead thing is some sort of conspiracy by some guy that does testing of crap in a lab that wants to get even with China. He probably couldn't understand the instructions on how to put together some crappy toy for his kid.

His kid called him an idiot (because kids don't respect their parents anymore) so he hatched this diabolical plan to get revenge on China.


BigNutty

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> @ElizabethD: They *do* make toys out of things that aren't plastic. Non-toxic, non-plastic things, even!

It's high time we stop shelling out extra for licensed characters and branding. I mean, do people realize that every Elmo doll you buy is you saying, "I'M OKAY WIT PAYING YOU TO ADVERTISE YOUR PRODUCTS FOR YOU!"? Plus it makes kids into little tyrannical assholes.

Wood blocks 4eva.

ErinYay

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Mama always warned me about playing Doctor.

Consumerist Moderator - ACAMBRAS

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> They're making out children weaker by recalling these toys. Do we want a nation of weaklings?

Pet rock in a McDonald's Happy Meal Box I guess...
Oh wait, they don't make them anymore...

Electroqueen

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> What are we supposed to buy little kids for Christmas this year? Somehow I don't think "a rock and a stick" (see comment by Marisol, above) will cut it with the preschool contingent. Oy!

ElizabethD

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> So... no, honey you can't have that really cool Fisher Price whatever-it-is.
Mommy loves you and doesn't want to see you poisoned or brain damaged (or worse) so we don't buy any Mattel or Fisher Price toys at all anymore because back in '07 we found out that their CEO said that Mattel/Fisher Price *knows* that they are supposed to follow the laws regarding recalls, but they still don't report every silly old choking hazard or poison toy because they think the law is unfair:
See: [consumerist.com]
Now, you didn't want those stinky old Fisher Price toys anyway, did you?
No, no you didn't.

marsneedsrabbits

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> @SuburbanSocialite:

I was thinking the same thing.

Jaysyn was banned for: http://consumerist.com/5032912/the-subprime-meltdown-will-be-nothing-compared-to-the-prime-meltdown#c7042646

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> That Fisher-Price medical kit has for generations been the perfect excuse to play "doctor." Take that kit away and you're liable to cause irreparable damage to children's psycho-sexual development. The minute chance of lead poisoning, or the likelihood your kid's going to grow up afraid of the opposite sex?

XianZomby

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Makes me wonder how much lead was in the toys lots of us grew up with in the 80's.

m0unds

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Goddammit. I'd loved to be shocked and amazed but at this point, fuck it. Give your kids a rock and a stick because they're safer at this point.

Leia Oragan Solo

]]> <![CDATA[Consumer Reports Finds "Troubling" Levels Of Lead In Unrecalled Fisher-Price Toy]]> Wow, I had a similar medical kit when I was a kid . . . things are starting to make sense :)

SuburbanSocialite

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