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Saturday, 17 November 2007

Recalled toy in Marius's crib!

Oh my God! I am so furious I can barely contain it right now. I was just surfing the web and happened upon CNN's list of recently recalled toys from MATTEL.... And to my horror, one of them happens to be attached to Marius's crib right now. It's been there for the past several months too! Thankfully Marius is safe and asleep at the moment, but you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll have that thing ripped off first thing tomorrow. It's a little Ernie toy that makes music and lights up when you press a button. Mars loves the thing. But the paint on it has a high lead content. Lead! Great, my son's toy is laden with a chemical that can cause sever damage to his nervous system!!!! It's a good thing that Marius has never taken to putting this thing in his mouth, as it's stuck to his crib and not laying around where we can sit there and gnaw on it.
Well, I had toyed (no pun intended) with the idea of banning all Chinese made toys from the house. But that is not an easy thing to do these days. Well, "ease" really isn't my main concern anymore, so the Chinese ban is now in effect. So, if any Christmas presents of questionable origin are headed over here, you can kindly donate them to charity (right, poison all of those underprivileged kids...) or return them. To be perfectly honest, Marius prefers half filled water bottles and empty cereal boxes to most of his other toys anyhow, so save your money. I tell you, it won't be easy though, as it is very hard to find toys that are NOT made in China, and if you do find them they're quite expensive. Luckily Simon's mom still has tons of his old toys, which predate China's rise to export king of the world, so we have plenty of wooden toys made 30 years ago in Sweden which will make it over here in good time.

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