More lead found in Chinese-made toys

Today afternoon, a report came in from the associated press, recalling that more than half-million Chinese-made products have more than the stated amount of led in them, including "Pirates of the Caribbean" and Baby Einstein toys, because they contain dangerous levels of lead. These are just a few toys among the 555,200 products recalled, the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced Thursday afternoon. Toys and products that contain large amount of led are imported and sold by Toys “R” Us Inc. and also, variety of wooden toys and products sold by KB toys Inc. Even aluminums water bottles, imported and sold by the sports authority Inc. Energizer Canada Inc. told reporters that the leather strap attached to the medallion squeeze light contained paint with lead levels exceeding the amount prescribed by Canadian regulations. Energizer Canada Inc. said that about 10,500 lights were distributed in Canada. These products were assembled in China between July 2006 and May 2007 and were sold at retail stores at the beginning of September. Under current U.S. regulations, children's products found to have more than 0.06 per cent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall. The recall also included cups shaped like Frankenstein's head with high levels of lead in their surface paint which can be dangerous when a person drinks out of the cup. Even products that aren’t for kids contain high level of lead in them, including bookmarks, and journals with lead-tainted surface point. The number of highly toxic lead products included in the recall is shocking: About 79,000 "Pirates of the Caribbean" medallion squeeze lights, imported by the Eveready Battery Co; About 15,000 Totally Me! Funky Room Decor Sets, manufactured by Hong Kong-based CKI Toys and imported by Toys "R" Us Inc; About 10,000 wooden Pull-Along Alphabet & Math Blocks wagons, Pull-Along Learning Blocks wagons imported by KB toys Inc; About 63,000 green, plastic cups shaped like Frankenstein's head, imported by Dollar General Merchandising Inc; About 192,000 key chains imported by Dollar General Merchandising Inc; About 150,000 bookmarks and journals, imported by Antioch Publishing; About 11,200 Alpine Design aluminium water bottles imported by The Sports Authority Inc.
I personally think this is a very big problem for Canada. With products that contain high levels of lead in them can harm not only children, but even adults with health problems. Young child are very weak inside and has no defence with germs and toxic materials, especially when young infants like to suck, or bite on lego blocks, or toys. Consuming large amount of lead can endanger kids, causing problems to the kid, internally. With Canada being one of the best countries to live in, I think it’s about time that Canada bring up their standards for security with the products being imported into the country. We all know that most of our products, rather it’s toys, cups, or bags, mostly are imported from China, and if China is doing a bad job making products, then it becomes a huge problem for Canada and will have a negative impact in the market for Canada. The foreign trade association of Canada should also warned their world trading partners, especially China to make healthy, non-toxic products.