Recall: Earring Sets Sold in Fla. Wal-Marts Contain Lead

The Orlando Sentinel ^ | July 17, 2007 | The Associated Press

[JACKRUSSELL]

About 220 Sleeping Beauty crown and Cinderella star earring sets, manufactured in China by Uncas Manufacturing Co., because the recalled metal earring sets contain high levels of lead, which is toxic if ingested by young children.......

......The products were sold at Wal-Mart stores in Florida from February to June 2007. Details: by phone at 800-776-0980; by Web at http://www.cpsc.gov.

[FormerACLUmember]

Chinese cheap junk: Dangerous until proven otherwise.

[x_plus_one]

Little girls don’t need to wear earrings.

[VeniVidiVici]

Right. Let’s just feed them lead ingots.

[MaxMax]

I'm beginning to feel satisfied over the testing of almost everything
that comes from China. Their quality will eventually bankrupt the economy.

Where are the lawsuits BTW? If this were an American company the
proverbial Poop would be hitting the fan. And the Dems would be
screaming bloody murder for heads to roll!

Dear China,
Your turn is coming in the court room. Can you say "increased tariffs"?
No? How about "Fred Thompson"? There, see, that wasn't so hard.

[Mad_as_heck]

manufactured in China

You don't say! I never would have guessed. Wal-Mart is like a slice of Chinese territory right in the middle of America.

[Graybeard58]

You don't say! I never would have guessed. Wal-Mart is like a slice of Chinese territory right in the middle of America.

Look around you and tell me what major retailor isn't.

[Graybeard58]

Ping.

[airborne]

American shoppers commit suicide.

China sells them the bullets at half price!

[Sunbunny]

Geez Louise
Can we just stop buying cheap Chinese crap already??

[dalereed]

BFD!

Durrig WW2 we used to chew the lead that food came packaged in for gum.

I don’t know of anyone that suffered any ill effects from it.

[Gabz]

WalMart Ping

I’m no more happy with the Chinacrap import than anyone else, but this constant attack on WalMart over it is really annoying the crapola out of me.

My daughter had her ears pierced in WM this past Saturday.

[Gabz]

Little girls don’t need to wear earrings.

Why not? I have friends who had their ears pierced within days of their birth, and I'm 46.

My 9 year old had hers pierced this past Saturday. For the 2nd time. NO, she does not have 2 earrings in each ear, the fist peircing closed up.

[Gabz]

Look around you and tell me what major retailor isn't.

The heck with major retailers, find me ANY regular retailer not selling products made in China.

[Libertina]

Earrings...dangerous if INGESTED? LOL I know, China bad, but this is somewhat humorus. Of course I guess small children put many items in their mouths...

I read a story on Drudge the other day about a Chinese man who put cardboard in the middle of the his dumplings because they were cheaper than meat and the people on the street who bought his wares “didn’t know.” I once worked for a Chinese person who had this attitude, “if the person is that dumb they deserve what they get.” Well, of course there are people from all countries that have those semtiments.

Lack of character and morals...

[Zhang Fei]

The first chain store that gets a multi-million dollar judgment against it will set alarm bells ringing among major corporations about quality control testing for imported products. Not before then.

[Buffalo Head]

Total junk science. How many folks on this thread know that most tin cans seams are soldered together with a lead-tin compound?

[leda]

chinacrapola is everywhere, not just walmart.
a good consumer reads the labels and researches.

[Gabz]

You’re preaching to the choir, m’dear!!!!

[Ben Ficklin]

Since these earrings are being manufactured from recycled materials, it is possible that you have identified the source of the lead in the earings.