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Article: As holiday shopping season approaches, embattled US consumer agency urges vigilance on toys
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- November 20, 2007
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Urging shoppers to be vigilant, federal regulators highlighted a broad array of potential toy safety hazards Tuesday, including the lead-based paint that forced U.S. distributors to recall millions of popular toys over the past several months.
Consumer groups countered that they had found numerous cases where toys that posed choking hazards or the danger of lead poisoning had made it improperly onto store shelves. "Consumers looking for toys still face an industry full of safety loopholes," said the U.S. Public Interest Research Group.
Three days before the start of the busy shopping season, Nancy Nord, acting chief of the federal Consumer Product Safety ...