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London:
After a major recall of Chinese toys by US giant Mattel, Britain’s biggest toy store, Hamleys, has withdrawn from sale children’s jewellery imported from China that contained levels of lead that can potentially cause brain damage and even kill. Paul Currie, trading director at Hamleys, has announced an immediate investigation and the withdrawal from sale of the two products that tested positive for lead. “High levels of lead in children’s jewellery are totally unacceptable because this is a product that comes into contact with children,” he was quoted as saying. Of 24 items of children’s jewellery bought in London and Birmingham, eight tested positive for high levels of lead. Six items had one or more components with more than 80% lead, compared with a recommended international safety limit of 0.06%. Chinese manufacturers are suspected of recycling lead from discarded computers for use in children’s jewellery.
Millions of children’s fashion trinkets containing high levels of the metal have already been recalled worldwide. Chewing or swallowing jewellery with high levels of lead can cause neurological damage in children or in rare cases kill. Dippal Manchanda, technical director of the Birmingham Assay Office, the laboratory that conducted the tests, said: “The findings from the samples submitted are worrying. Although there is no intention for the components to be sucked or chewed, (they could) cause major harm if a child were to put them in its mouth.”
The forgery of British safety certificates is rife among Chinese factories exporting toys to Britain, according to businessmen involved in the trade.
They say the frauds include altering the date of tests on toys and using computer graphics to change “fail” to “pass”. “Fake certificates are rife,” said a British buyer who sends millions of pounds of goods to the UK every year.
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