Recall of China-made toys unnerves parents

Posted on August 4, 2007 3:16 AM | | Comments (0)

By Mindy Fetterman, Greg Farrell and Laura Petrecca | USA Today
August 3, 2007

First it was Thomas the Tank Engine trains. Then Easy-Bake Ovens. And now Big Bird, Elmo, Cookie Monster and Dora the Explorer.
All are beloved children's characters that were licensed to toy manufacturers who contracted with companies in China to make the toys. And all have had those toys recalled. Millions of them. Just since June.

The latest is Mattel (MAT), which announced Thursday that it was recalling 1.5 million toys made in China for the company's Fisher-Price division.

Those toys feature the Sesame Street characters — the big yellow one; the little red one; the hairy blue one — and Nickelodeon's adventuresome bilingual cartoon girl.

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