Feb 21 2009
 TopNews | Chinese toys continue to sell in Kashmir despite health warnings TopNews, India Government officials claimed the Chinese toys contained lead. This element, if ingested, can cause various ills like brain hemorrhage, anemia, learning problems and slow growth. The federal health ministry has also issued warnings against Chinese toys. ... |
Feb 20 2009
 KCBY.com 11 | Lead law's big net catches ATV, motorcycle dealers KCBY.com 11, OR Lead standards were put in place to get potentially dangerous toys pulled from the shelves. But they have also lengthened indefinitely the shelf lives of bicycles and all-terrain vehicles at the Renton Motorcycle Company. All of the shop's bikes and ... |
Feb 18 2009
 FOX Toledo Online | Lead testing concerns FOX Toledo Online, OH - 1 hour ago The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act that was passed last summer after a recall of lead-tainted toys made in China went into effect last week. ... |
Feb 18 2009
 RoadracingWorld.com | Apparently The MIC Is Better At Running A Letter-writing Campaign ... RoadracingWorld.com, CA - 32 minutes ago The MIC and SVIA believe that the lead-content provisions of the act, which originally were aimed at toys that can be mouthed by children, ... |
Feb 17 2009
 RushLimbaugh.com (subscription) | Where's the Lead Law Uproar? RushLimbaugh.com (subscription), CA - 45 minutes ago ... two years when lead was found in infants' toys; and most of those infants' toys (in fact all the ones that had lead in them) happened to come from China ... |
Feb 17 2009
 The Day Weekly Digest | Made not in Ukraine The Day Weekly Digest, Ukraine - 23 minutes ago Chinese and Turkish clothes, footwear, and toys enjoy great popularity on the Ukrainian market. The same kinds of products made in Ukraine are not as ... |
Feb 16 2009
 Straits Times | 'Buy Indonesian' order for civil servants Straits Times, Singapore - 16 Feb 2009 Dr Sri Mulyani took the lead by switching to using Indonesia-made products. She was seen on Sunday wearing Indonesian shoe brand Specs during a sports ... |
Feb 16 2009
 AFP | China expresses deep concern over US trade protectionism AFP - 54 minutes ago Following a "Buy American" clause in the huge US economic stimulus package and an Indian ban on Chinese toys, China's commerce ministry warned it was ... |
Feb 15 2009
 The Leaky Cauldron.org | Did Umbridge Take Over? The Leaky Cauldron.org, MA - 16 hours ago Since books are not considered toys they are not regulated and the books could be contaminated. While I know that babies put everything in their mouths, ... |
Feb 13 2009
 BBC News | Is sexual desire entering a recession? BBC News, UK - 1 hour ago Sex toy shops as far apart as Amsterdam, New York and China are anecdotally reporting a boom in sales. And, according to Ken Herron, chief of marketing at ... |
Feb 13 2009
 World Magazine | Associated Press/Photo by Charles Bertram/Lexington Herald-Leader World Magazine, NC - 1 hour ago One year ago China had 8610 factories producing 70 percent of all the world's toys, and today only 4388 remain, according to customs office figures quoted ... |
Feb 12 2009
 Malaysian Today | LifeStyle : Valentine’s on a Budget Malaysian Today, Malaysia - 1 hour ago Sourcing her materials from India, Bangkok, and China, more than 95 percent of June’s accessories on sale are personally made using wood, brass, ... |
Feb 11 2009
 BusinessWeek | India-China Trade Tensions Rise BusinessWeek - 32 minutes ago ... consumer groups have collected data showing many of the toys in the Indian market—and especially those from China—have high levels of lead and cadmium. ... India 'open to talks' with China on toy ban Yahoo all 93 news articles |
Feb 11 2009
 Telegraph.co.uk | China's exports suffer sharpest fall in 13 years Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom - 57 minutes ago By Malcolm Moore in Wenzhou Workers assembling toys on a production line at a toy factory in Shantou, in China's eastern Guangdong province. ... |
Feb 11 2009
 Atlantic Online | The Last Ace Atlantic Online - 18 minutes ago Complaints from the Air Force tend to be dismissed as the laments of spoiled fighter jocks denied the newest, hottest toy. But the picture on Rodriguez’s ... |
Feb 11 2009
 Explore Baltimore County | Required testing for lead could bring end to business Explore Baltimore County, MD - 49 minutes ago But the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which Congress passed last summer after Mattel Inc. recalled millions of lead-laden toys made in China, ... |
