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Mattel Seeks to Pull Their Moo Shu Pork From the Wok!

Friday, September 21, 2007

In what is being billed as Mattel’s mea culpa for the unprecedented toy recalls over the past several months Mattel apologizes to China.

Nothing says, ‘I’m sorry please don’t stop making our products for a fraction of the cost it would take to make them anywhere but in China’, like a personalized apology.

There is no question China’s reputation of being a nation of pariah has been increasing almost daily; now Mattel wants to mend that perception by telling the world and China that the recent recalls are all their fault.

It’s said that fear has a recognizable scent. Is that the odor wafting out of Barbie’s Dream House?

Mattel is now claiming the majority of toys recalled were in fact recalled as a result of poor Mattel engineering, and that only a small percentage of the recall involved banned lead-based paint.

80% of children’s toys are manufactured in China equaling a mind blowing 7.5 BILLION dollars worth of products. We’ve held the opinion that regardless of what was going on in China, Mattel, as other toy companies, own the responsibility for producing safe toys.

Mattel has announced plans to upgrade its safety system?

Here is a bulletin Mattel!

The time to upgrade your safety standards is:
frequently and prior to one child being harmed while engaged in the act of play!

Don’t wait until your stock values fall. Companies making anything that comes in contact with our most valuable, precious and helpless children owe those children and their wallet carrying parents a reasonable expectation of safety.

When companies are charging obscene prices for their goods, when they are making obscene profits they need to go overboard to make their products safe. These companies spend obscene amounts of money to advertise and bend the minds of their ‘target’ consumers.

It is time that consumers ‘target’ these purveyors of hazards and tell them we have had enough! Tell the makers of Polly Pocket to stay out of your pocket until they can prove they have changed their bad practices.

Contact Mattel: http://service.mattel.com/us/contactus.aspx

Labels: China, Mattel, Tainted, Toys