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作者: jason_steel    时间: 2009-7-8 13:23
标题: Nine Companies Penalized for Selling Children Products that Violated the Fede

NEWS from CPSC
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

Office of Information and Public Affairs

Washington, DC 20207

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 7, 2009 * @- B# N- |- \: ZRelease # 09-264

CPSC Hotline: (800) 638-2772 CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

Nine Companies Penalized for Selling Children抯 Products that Violated the Federal Lead Paint Ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that nine children抯 product manufacturers, importers and sellers have agreed to pay more than $500,000 in civil penalties for violating the federal lead paint ban.
  w& A: g" m' T, [; d9 G/ P/ IThe penalties settle allegations that the firms knowingly manufactured, imported, or sold toys and other children抯 articles with paint or other surface coatings that contained lead levels in violation of federal law. The settlements have been provisionally accepted by the Commission.
These products were recalled in 2007 and 2008, and include items such as toys, children抯 metal jewelry, children抯 pens, metal water bottles, pencil pouches, sunglasses and children抯 Halloween pails and baskets. Tests showed that paint or surface coatings on these children抯 products contained lead in excess of 600 ppm, or 0.06 percent, by weight. One firm抯 testing revealed that its products contained surface coatings with nearly 60 percent lead. In 1978, a federal ban was put in place which prohibited toys and other children抯 articles from having more than 0.06 percent lead (by weight) in paints or surface coatings. Lead can be toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health consequences.
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[li]Cardinal Distributing Co. Inc., of Baltimore, Md., $100,000
[li]Recall: #07-157 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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/ U; Z2 }* l# b[/li][li]Dollar General Corp., of Goodlettsville, Tenn., $100,000
[li]Recalls: 08-007, #08-068, #08-080 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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) P) A( s2 f: i[/li][li]Family Dollar Stores Inc., of Matthews, N.C., $75,000
[li]Recall: #08-051 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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[/li][li]Hobby Lobby Stores Inc., of Oklahoma City, Okla., $50,000
[li]Recalls: #08-084, #08-229 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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* k2 i& j" u) A[/li][li]First Learning Company Ltd., of Hong Kong, $50,000
[li]Recalls: #08-141, #08-174 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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* p8 q) [6 g1 Q2 o3 E- n& S[/li][li]Michaels Stores Inc., of Irving, Texas, $45,000
[li]Recall: #08-248 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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[/li][li]A&A Global Industries Inc., of Cockeysville, Md., $40,000
[li]Recall: #07-144 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]


[/li][li]Raymond Geddes & Co, of Baltimore, Md., $40,000
[li]Recall: #08-096 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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[/li][li]Downeast Concepts Inc., of Yarmouth, Maine, $30,000
[li]Recall: #08-231 [/li][li]Settlment Agreement (pdf) [/li]

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* `7 f) Y9 n8 H1 F; fIn agreeing to settle the matters, the firms deny CPSC抯 allegations that they knowingly violated the law.

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Dollar General Toy Cars
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Family Dollar Halloween Pails


Hobby Lobby Halloween Baskets
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" ]9 g6 c7 R5 {! b; B1 p- UMichael抯 Stores Writing Pens
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A&A Global Industries Children抯 Bracelets
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Raymond Geddes Children抯 Pencil Pouches
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[size=-1]CPSC is still interested in receiving incident or injury reports that are either directly related to this product recall or involve a different hazard with the same product. Please tell us about it by visiting https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/incident.aspx
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# w8 G7 ?( v, l; A: Z5 }To report a dangerous product or a product-related injury, call CPSC's Hotline at (800) 638-2772 or CPSC's teletypewriter at (800) 638-8270. To join a CPSC e-mail subscription list, please go to https://www.cpsc.gov/cpsclist.aspx. Consumers can obtain recall and general safety information by logging on to CPSC's Web site at www.cpsc.gov.
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作者: qiqiqaqa    时间: 2009-7-8 16:21
Downeast Concepts Metal Water Bottles
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