Recall Blog
http://blog.madebadinchina.com
Recall Blog
welcome !
My name is Richard, and this is my very first post on this blog. Its been a difficult year in 2007 for those of us who buy lots of toys from China. Like me. Some of the reasons that made me want to start this website was for people to get a quick picture list of recalled products from China. Not sure about you, but who has time to go the the CPSC.org website and browse through every recall. I don't know about you, but I have two kids and the thought of my kid being sick because he was playing with a lead painted toy from Target just doesn't sound right. I want everyone to know that not all bad products come from China, but the numbers do seem to be increasing. The global economy is changing, we can now buy DVD players for under $20, but some of these products may not have the quality products had decades ago. As China becomes a global economic power, there are ramafications, one of the drawbacks is this. My hope for this website and other like it is to firstly, inform and educate.
One example comes to mind that really is quite revealling. Simplicity Cribs. In Oct, 2007 Donald Mays, Senior Director of Product Safety Planning and Technical Administration for Consumers Union said “Last month’s recall of one million Simplicity cribs had a consumer response rate of a mere 4.5 percent, leaving 950,000 hazardous cribs still in the homes of unsuspecting parents”
So, there are 950, 000 hazardous cribs out there in the public ! To make it worse, 2.5 years had passed before the CPSC did actually publicly make a recall statement on this product. In April 2005, Chad and Nicola Johns' son Liam was just 9 months old when he died in a Simplicity-manufactured crib. His mother went into his room in the morning, and found him hanging in a gap between the drop rail and the mattress. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. I could go on and on, but I guess thats what this blog is here for.
Here is one email I received a while back, " Thanks for putting up this website. Yes! What about the fur collars which the Chinese claimed to be synthetic which were actually real fur taken from dogs which were clubbed to death?" from Christine ZC. Geez, fur collars, that is just disgusting.
Looking forward to your comments, good or bad. Be safe.
One example comes to mind that really is quite revealling. Simplicity Cribs. In Oct, 2007 Donald Mays, Senior Director of Product Safety Planning and Technical Administration for Consumers Union said “Last month’s recall of one million Simplicity cribs had a consumer response rate of a mere 4.5 percent, leaving 950,000 hazardous cribs still in the homes of unsuspecting parents”
So, there are 950, 000 hazardous cribs out there in the public ! To make it worse, 2.5 years had passed before the CPSC did actually publicly make a recall statement on this product. In April 2005, Chad and Nicola Johns' son Liam was just 9 months old when he died in a Simplicity-manufactured crib. His mother went into his room in the morning, and found him hanging in a gap between the drop rail and the mattress. He was pronounced dead at the hospital. I could go on and on, but I guess thats what this blog is here for.
Here is one email I received a while back, " Thanks for putting up this website. Yes! What about the fur collars which the Chinese claimed to be synthetic which were actually real fur taken from dogs which were clubbed to death?" from Christine ZC. Geez, fur collars, that is just disgusting.
Looking forward to your comments, good or bad. Be safe.