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Mattel, States Reach $12M Settlement on Lead in Toys

pMattel, Inc., the largest toy manufacturer in the world, and the attorneys general of 39 states have agreed on a $12M settlement over excessive levels of lead in children's toys./p pThe settlement agreement announced Monday relates to a consumer scare in 2007, when more than 2 million toys manufactured by a href="http://service.mattel.com/us/recall.asp" target="_blank"Mattel, Inc./a and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price, Inc. were a href="http://injury.findlaw.com/lead/lead-toys.html" target="_blank"recalled/a due to excessive levels of lead in the surface coating and sub-surface layers of the toys, according to a a href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=cagopressreleaseamp;L=1amp;L0=Homeamp;sid=Cagoamp;b=pressreleaseamp;f=2008_12_15_mattel_multistate_agreementamp;csid=Cago" target="_blank"Press Release from the Massachusetts Attorney General/a, issued Monday./p pa href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN1543389920081216" target="_blank"Reuters reports/a that "The states will use the money to educate consumers on the dangers of lead paint and to test children for lead exposure. The United States is lowering its acceptable level of surface lead paint in toys by 85 percent, starting in August. 2009. As part of the agreement with the states, Mattel has agreed to meet that standard by Nov. 30."/p ul lia href="http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=cagopressreleaseamp;L=1amp;L0=Homeamp;sid=Cagoamp;b=pressreleaseamp;f=2008_12_15_mattel_multistate_agreementamp;csid=Cago" target="_blank"Press Release from the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office/a/li liMore State AG Press Releases: a href="http://www.azag.gov/press_releases/dec/2008/Mattel%20Release.pdf" target="_blank"Arizona/a | a href="http://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrel.nsf/newsreleases/008B51650762BB9E852575200058064D" target="_blank"Florida/a | a href="http://www.ag.state.oh.us/press/08/12/pr081215.pdf" target="_blank"Ohio/a | a href="http://www.attorneygeneral.gov/press.aspx?id=4140" target="_blank"Pennsylvania/a/li liReuters: a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN1543389920081216" target="_blank"U.S. States Settle with Mattel on Lead Toys/a/li lia href="http://service.mattel.com/us/recall.asp" target="_blank"Mattel Recall Information/a (Mattel, Inc.)/li lia href="http://injury.findlaw.com/lead/lead-toys.html" target="_blank"Lead Paint in Toys - Recalls/a (FindLaw)/li lia href="http://injury.findlaw.com/lead/" target="_blank"Lead Poisoning and the Law/a (FindLaw)/li lia href="http://commonlaw.findlaw.com/2008/11/toy-safety-tips.html" target="_blank"Toy Safety Tips for the Holiday Shopping Season/a (FindLaw's Common Law Blog)/li lia href="http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/category/toy.html" target="_blank"Toy Hazard Recalls/a (U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission)/li /ul pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5OTV2-sGDbhmz02bpRV8AL-VmPc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5OTV2-sGDbhmz02bpRV8AL-VmPc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=hIwNcwSt"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=gMUI8WqH"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=gMUI8WqH" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=hopXepUB"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?d=54" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=9O92mmad"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=9O92mmad" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?a=nF9tbv42"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/FindLawsCommonLaw?i=nF9tbv42" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FindLawsCommonLaw/~4/4JNDXWdPhXQ" height="1" width="1"/

Full post as published by FindLaw's Common Law on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).