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A slew of products made in China ranging from children's jewelry to cake decorations were recalled on Thursday because they contain excessive amounts of lead.

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STONERS
Oct. 25, 2007, 1:28 p.m.
"The recall of roughly 665,000 items announced by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) includes about 38,000 Go Diego Go Animal Rescue Boats from Mattel Inc's Fisher-Price division."
"The boats were sold at retail stores nationwide from June through October, and the CPSC said surface paint contains excessive levels of lead."
"Also recalled were about 142,000 Halloween pails sold at Family Dollar Stores Inc from August through October. The CPSC said green paint on the pails contains amounts of lead that violate U.S. standards for lead paint."
"More than 20 million toys made in China were recalled worldwide over the past four months due to potentially dangerous levels of lead and hazards posed by small magnets that can be swallowed."
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engineer
Oct. 25, 2007, 1:44 p.m.
Do you think they care!! They've decimated our manufacturing by their obscenely low prices. I think we call it dumping. The greedy at the top have also let this happen. they own us as a result for right now. Let's bring the manufacturing back home!!! L O O K___A T___L A B E L S ! ! !
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natashas
Oct. 25, 2007, 2:11 p.m.
I am doing my best to shop by the U.S. label. I can not trust China in any form with any product. I am worried at this point on what my children receive from everyone else. Halloween is coming up as well as Christmas. I think China has not seen much of a decline in profit to care. And where do we go. Nothing is made from the U.S. anymore.
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dandt1612
Oct. 25, 2007, 2:59 p.m.
This is just ridiculous. Gift cards are looking better all the time for Christmas presents. Even kids know that getting cash isn't that bad.
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Radiofreeeuropa
Oct. 25, 2007, 5:18 p.m.
But they have cheap (slave) labor! As you know that trumps all else.
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mamasan
Oct. 25, 2007, 5:36 p.m.
I guess we all need to buy a lead testing kit and test it before it gets into the hands of our precious young ones....not to mention ourselves!
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NelsonR
Oct. 25, 2007, 6 p.m.
Nobody mentions clothing??? If you shop for clothing today that is mostly made in China also, check the width of the sleeves, the length, buttons or whatever. Do you think the Chinese despise us and are shafting us with shoddy merchandise?? If its not made in China apparently we must do without or accept 4th rate products. What are Americans producing?? I think squat. The older generation is supporting with their retirements by paying for their deadbeat children and grandchildren to survive while again, we slide backwards while the five percent rich obtain more of the wealth. Remarkable and yes Bush is part of the problem along with our so called deranged moronic leaders.
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vvv63vvv
Oct. 25, 2007, 6:28 p.m.
notice how each time this type of story appears it's less and less of a story instead of a growing problem
take your chances and get used to the risk
money first
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Harbeas
Oct. 25, 2007, 6:40 p.m.
If the item has a made in China tag, don't buy! Then maybe the businesses that shifted their facilities there will either have to bring them back to the US or go out of business. Of course one of the reasons for being made in China is the cheap labor and another is the total lack of consumer regulations that we impose on companies doing business in the US. This will cost us more money but we don't have to worry about the safety of our children as much.
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not2needy
Oct. 25, 2007, 6:47 p.m.
What the hell is wrong with people? Why are they still buying this garbage made in China?
Isn't it worth a couple of extra dollars to insure the safety of your children, and family in general? Just makes sense to me!
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Rayman
Oct. 25, 2007, 7:04 p.m.
When is the Bush government going to take a firm stand to BAN 'Chinese made products'? From deception, lies to greed, this Republican 'Mafia-Gang' is only good at sending people to war and violating our civil liberties as Stalin did in the old USSR!
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ACTeeple
Oct. 25, 2007, 11:25 p.m.
I've become afraid to buy ANYTHING with the "made in China" label. It's a shame that stores that target people who are struggling finally are the ones with these products. Like these people don't have enough problems.
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KYRed
Oct. 25, 2007, 11:26 p.m.
Boycott China!
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shoshanna
Oct. 25, 2007, 11:56 p.m.
Last Christmas I purchased several artificial outdoor Christmas trees..the white twiggy looking type with lights...and there were barely legible warnings about lead poisoning from handling. I was astonished. They warned to wash hands after handling the trees...but I wandered how many people didn't even see the warnings! Uhh..they were from China...I only buy made in USA pet food now...My husband and I have often ate at Chinese and Asian rest....seafood is usually great...but now we wonder if we are being "poisoned" there, too!
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HMMace
Oct. 26, 2007, 3:38 a.m.
Well--i stopped buying canned mushrooms from China..and now I check every can I pick up---made in china, I put it back...NO MATTER HOW MUCH i WOULD HAVE SAVED.....
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jumpmaster
Oct. 26, 2007, 10:37 a.m.
No matter what Bush, Pelosi, Cheney, Reid, Robert Redford, etc. do, you have the power right this very moment to take a stand against Chinese products.
Don't buy Chinese products!
Abracadabra!
Oh, but I can save so much money. Your choice.
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cheif
Oct. 26, 2007, 11:55 a.m.
Don't matter how many of our children they kill...cheap is good, so they say, but I don't remember any price reductions anywhere in any toy store, so where does cheap enter the chain? Just how they're made?
This is not the only way they're killing us off folks...we're now eating food produced in China and elsewhere that have no rules against putting anything (human waste, etc...) in their fields to grow stuff for us CHEAPER.
Our EPA department doesn't have enough agents to check but 1 or 2% of all the food imported to us (gave out great bonus checks to the big porkers)...so, how and where do we buy food made in America where the production is monitored so as to keep all those chemicals out of the food?
We HAVE to get rid of ALL incumbents and get a bunch of hardline independents in office who will straighten this mess out before we have major health problems. Corporate is making cheap products and selling them at a very high profit margin at the expense of our children's health.
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saneman
Oct. 26, 2007, 11:56 a.m.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3722013
"there is no federal standard for lead in cosmetics"
Maybe, that's why Tammy Faye Bakker died from cancer, and women in the U.S. can't live without their cosmetics.
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Jaydee40
Oct. 26, 2007, 11:57 a.m.
Ever wonder where all that lead paint is coming from? I'm not saying where but I am very curious. Years ago when we stopped using it the stuff just disappeared off the shelf. I don't think it would be destroyed if there was a market outside ours. It could be our own paint coming back to haunt us.
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getreal1
Oct. 27, 2007, 2:25 p.m.
The only way to avoid doing trade with some countries or at least cut down on some of it is for inflated prices to drop. The higher the price the more the shopper ends up buying the cheaper, which naturally comes from overseas. Those Big Box stores will always be there because of it. Did you know that your electric company can fix it where your meter will run just a tad faster to get the extra buck? There is always some kind of time bug set to stop after your car warranty runs out. I once had a Cutlass that had plastic parts in the transmission, the engineer knew if he planed it to go next to the catalytic converter, that it would eventually stop up and melt the plastic in the transmission, therefore another transmission.
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johnathonemerson
Jan. 28, 2008, 11:01 a.m.
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shelbyrush
Jan. 28, 2008, noon
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