{"id":231,"date":"2007-08-01T19:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T02:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/more-bad-toys-sad"},"modified":"2007-08-01T19:44:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-02T02:44:00","slug":"more-bad-toys-sad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/more-bad-toys-sad","title":{"rendered":"More bad toys &#8211; sad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This in the news today:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Mattel Inc.&#8217;s Fisher-Price division is recalling almost 1 million toys made in China because their paint may contain too much lead, marking the latest in a string of recalls that have fueled U.S.-China tensions over the safety of Chinese products.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"midArticle_1\"><\/span>       <\/p>\n<p>Mattel said the 967,000 plastic toys, which include popular preschool characters like Elmo, Big Bird, and Dora, were made by a contract manufacturer in China using a non-approved paint pigment containing lead, which is in violation of its standards.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Full article  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/topNews\/idUSWEN003320070802?feedType=RSS&amp;sp=true\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Why are all these dangerous products still coming in?  We have had bad pet food, bad people food and bad children&#8217;s toys.  No one seems able to stop them because no one is monitoring our safety!  We have few person who do the actual inspections &#8211; in fact there are fewer food safety inspectors than back in 2002 and we import more and more stuff &#8211; with fewer and fewer inspections!<\/p>\n<p>This from an administration that pretends to be concerned with public  safety &#8211; when they are in reality more concerned with scare tactics and keeping people afraid.<\/p>\n<p>After all &#8211; Fear is good for republicans&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This in the news today: NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Mattel Inc.&#8217;s Fisher-Price division is recalling almost 1 million toys made in China because their paint may contain too much lead, marking the latest in a string of recalls that have fueled U.S.-China tensions over the safety of Chinese products. Mattel said the 967,000 plastic toys, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[199,347],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-fda-food-safety-inspectors","tag-toys-from-china-having-lead"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/lynnsrants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}