Sat, 19 Sep 2009

Mattel's toys evade outside tests

Should've been subtitled "How Government Regulation is Just Another Way of Passing Out Government Favors". Mattel is the company that more or less singlehandedly caused this abomination of a law to run through Congress: they had six lead related recalls in 2007, all from toys manufactured in China. And now they get an exemption, while small business making handmade toys on a human scale like StoryBlox get put out of business.

Free market my ass!

Toy-makers, clothing manufacturers and other companies selling products for young children are submitting samples to independent laboratories for safety tests. But the nation's largest toy maker, Mattel, isn't being required to do the same.

(link) [Chicago Tribune]

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