Wednesday, 05 September 2007 01:37

Mattel Announces Another Toy Recall

The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Mattel Inc., announced late yesterday that it is recalling about 700-thousand Chinese-made toys that have excessive amounts of lead paint. The recall covers 675-thousad units of various Barbie accessory toys that were manufactured between Sept. 30, 2006, and Aug. 20, 2007. The action also involves 89-hundred different toys involving Big World 6-in-I Bongo Band toys from the company's Fisher-Price brand. Those products were sold nationwide from July 2007 through Aug. 2007. The announcement marks Mattel's third major recall of Chinese-made toys because of lead paint in a matter of a month.