Toys News
- China promises safe toys for Christmas
Date: 13-Sep-2007 Sources: (Shenzhen Daily)
THE Chinese-made toys American children receive for Christmas this year will be safe, the head of China's product safety agency said yesterday, pledging that problems over the use of dangerous lead paint will be resolved in time for holiday exports.
Li Changjiang, the safety inspection chief, said differences with the United States over how much lead paint could be used in toys were being worked out by product safety officials in both countries.
'Before Christmas, we will certainly provide children safer, better and more appealing toys. They will certainly like them,'Li, who heads the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine, told reporters on the sidelines of a food safety conference.
China has become a center for the world's toymaking industry, exporting US$7.5 billion worth of toys last year and accounting for nearly 87 percent of the toys imported by the United States, according to China's Commerce Ministry.
But questions about the quality of Chinese toys, food and other exports have grown in recent months after a string of product recalls and import bans.
Mattel Inc., the largest American toy company, has issued three product recalls this summer for Chinese-made toys, removing millions of units of Barbie doll accessories, toy cars and other products due to unsafe levels of lead or magnets that too easily detach.
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