A Toymaker's Conscience (and Nanny-Statism)

Posted December 23rd, 2007 at 11:12 AM by mjerryfuerst
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This link is to an article about toy manufacturer compliance with standards to protect workers in overseas plants and to ensure the safety of their products--a somewhat more important, but less visible issue than my last blog post about baseball and drug use.   The artcile focuses mostly on Mattel.   Partcipants in this forum who invoke the term "nanny-statism" or have interest in protecting people as well as whales should have some comment

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/23/magazine/23Mattel-t.html?th&emc=th

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On December 25th, 2007 at 10:23 AM, Anonymous (not verified) said:

It appears that there were no lead paint toys under our tree.  Whew.

On December 26th, 2007 at 03:32 PM, PropertyRights said:

Is there any Lead in a lump of Illinois coal?  Um, just asking hypothetically...? :-)

What about underwear and socks? :-)

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