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By ANDREW BRIDGES, Associated Press Writer 12 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - China signed an agreement Tuesday to prohibit the use of lead paint on toys exported to the United States.

Unveiled at the second joint U.S-China summit on consumer product safety, the pact was negotiated in the wake of the recalls of millions of playthings decorated with paint containing the toxic metal.

China has faced stiff pressure this year after an array of its exports, including toys, pet food ingredients, fish and jewelry, have been recalled over health and safety concerns.

In the pact, Beijing also pledged to step up inspections of its exports and take other steps to ensure that those products meet U.S. standards, said Nancy Nord, acting head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. That will include joint efforts by the two countries to increase understanding of those standards among manufacturers and exporters.

The absence of such an understanding allowed paint suppliers to provide lead paint to companies making toys sold by Mattel Inc. and other companies, said Chuanzhong Wei, vice minister of China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. Lead paint has been banned on toys made in the U.S. since 1978.

"That's why we decided we should intensify the exchanges between importers and exporters in the field of standards," Wei said, speaking through a translator.

U.S. and Chinese regulators also agreed to hold regular product safety talks, including monthly discussions of recall activity and trends, Nord said. China also will help the CPSC trace products to their source when problems do arise.

The United States and China also agreed to cooperate on improving the overall safety of the latter country's toy exports, as well as fireworks, cigarette lighters and electrical products.

"This is an important signal from the Chinese government that it is serious about working with CPSC to keep dangerous products out of American homes," Nord said.

But Wei stressed that most Chinese exports are safe, echoing a line that Beijing repeatedly has used in defending the quality of its products. While acknowledging more could be done, Wei said that 100 percent safety was impossible and warned against overemphasizing what he characterized as limited problems.

"We should not over-propagandize the problem," Wei said.

China bans lead paint on US toy exports - Yahoo! News

 
Okay, no lead paint for American toys, but use it for everyone else's??? Whatever. Ten years from now when some unscrupulous factory wants to cut corners again, they're probably going to use paint made with arsenic or something.

I have personally set foot in some of these factories in China over the years, and of the companies that are not U.S. based, I am always shocked at what I see, even as they tell me they "cleaned up the place" for visitors.

 
Well, good for them, but they never have to worrk about Aprill's money anymore, I am on a full ban of plastic toys....

 
Originally Posted by Aprill849 /img/forum/go_quote.gif Well, good for them, but they never have to worrk about Aprill's money anymore, I am on a full ban of plastic toys.... That's right! When it comes to my children, we're going full out Amish and whittling and sewing all our own toys.
And to think, maybe chewing on all those Barbie arms has made me into the loopy person I am today!
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I'm just joking...about that last statement.

 
You know what? Maybe that's why I'm crazy!! LOL

But yeah, its grass, dirt, bikes and teddy bears here from now on... I got my kids tested for lead, everyone was ok, but it is a lesson well learned

 

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