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Article: Chinese recalls ring toymakers' bells
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- Sunday Gazette-Mail
- Article date:
- August 19, 2007
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BAD RODACH, Germany - Saws clatter on the workshop floor, where
craftsmen stamp out the rounded sides of what will become a red toy
pushcar and slice dozens of dragon figures out of a 2-foot-long
dowel.
One building over, large drums rumble, shaking hundreds of wooden
grasping rings beneath a steady drip of water-based lacquer. The
process, which takes 10 hours - and another eight if the wood is
colored - renders the rings smooth, shiny and safe for curious young
mouths.
With about 80 percent of all toys sold in the United States made
in China, German toymaker Haba knows it supplies a tiny market from
its base in Bavaria.
But the recall of millions of Chinese-made toys tainted with lead- ...