Another Made in China Toy Recall, will Model Railway products be next?

[Anonymous]

Pretty hard to avoid things not made in China these days, more and more food items on our Supermarket shelves popping up, if we make a mistake and buy a food product that says Made in China we just give it to the old lady next door, she doesnt care if its Made in Timbucktoo.

Getting quite frightening over her in Australia, one of our favorite foods is seafood, big fish substitution rackets in Fish and Chip shops with what is supposed to be Cod being substituted by Asian Bassa, our Prawns/Shrimps are being farmed in China, we are warned off eating them all the time.

Chinese grown Fruit and Vegs are turning up in our Fruit Shops, most wont buy them because they were grown in Human Waste.

I think I will take my chances with the Chinese toys, thank goodness we dont have to eat them.

[loathar]

Stop reading my mind!!! I was just getting ready to post this. The thing that caught my eye was the recall of die cast collectible cars. I know our cars aren't a Mattel brand but you have to wonder if the Malibus and Real Rides aren't made in the same factory or with the same paints.

I wonder how much of our train stuff is made with toxic ingredients but don't get recalled because our age group doesn't tend to chew on our locos and cars.(well...most of us don't)

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[bearman]

I wonder if the manufactures of model railway items are keeping tabs on their made in China products and can they assure us that they are safe.

I wouldn't count on it.  As for me, I don't buy ANY food that says product of China.  It is not much comfort in some ways but it is a start. 

 

 

[GAPPLEG]

Did you see the owner of the factory that made them commited suicide.

[Pathfinder]

So another big recall, by Mattel, for 9 million toys.  This is on top of some earlier recalls, including 2 years worth of wooden Thomas the Tank Engine.  Most of the recalls seem to be related to the use of lead in the finishes of the toys.

I wonder if the manufactures of model railway items are keeping tabs on their made in China products and can they assure us that they are safe.

With all the bad news around toys, toothpaste, wheat gluten etc from China, I am now very concerned about anything that is China made as far as safety goes.