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Mattel Paying out $ 12 Million to participating US states because of Lead found in Toys

By Jessica Smagacz

p /p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"US officials said Monday that a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081215/ts_alt_afp/uschinaconsumersafetytoys_081215190149"Mattel/a, the huge US toy company, will pay 12 million dollars to US authorities because of last yearrsquo;s recall of two million Chinese-made toxic toys./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"These toys were fabricated by Mattel and subsidiary Fisher Price and had traces of lead paint in them./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Please see our past post on a href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/defective-and-dangerous-products/high-level-of-lead-found-in-toys-from-china.aspx?googleid=250286"High Level of Lead Found in Toys from China/a./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"39 US states reached a settlement agreement with Mattel and Fisher-Price, a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081215/ts_alt_afp/uschinaconsumersafetytoys_081215190149"yahoo news /areports, ldquo;resolving a 15-month probe into the events that lead to the voluntary recall of the companiesrsquo; toys.rdquo; The actual settlement will be divided among the participating states. Attorney General of Massachusetts, a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081215/ts_alt_afp/uschinaconsumersafetytoys_081215190149"Martha Coakley/a, said that ldquo;the agreement also included lead monitoring requirements aimed at preventing such a public health scare, in addition to funds for protecting children from the dangers of lead poisoning.rdquo;/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"The a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081215/ts_alt_afp/uschinaconsumersafetytoys_081215190149"US Consumer Product Safety Commission /asince October 2007 has recalled around two million Mattel and Fisher-Price toys, all of which were manufactured in China because of high a href="http://www.cbsfirm.com/defectiveproducts.html"lead /alevels./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" /p p /p p /pa href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/toxic-substances/mattel-paying-out-12-million-to-participating-us-states-because-of-lead-found-in-toys.aspx?googleid=253464"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Jessica-Smagacz"Jessica Smagacz/a

Full post as published by Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).