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  2. Zhang Shuhong - Wikipedia

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    Zhang Shuhong worked at the Lee Der Industrial company for over ten years before taking over as head of the company's day-to-day operations. [3] The Lee Der company, which is based in Foshan, China, and is also known as Lida, [4] was a major supplier of toys and other products for Western companies, including Mattel and its subsidiary, Fisher-Price.

  3. 2007 Chinese export recalls - Wikipedia

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    Mattel at the time was the world's biggest toy company, [citation needed] and several weeks earlier had recalled toys based on Big Bird and Elmo from Sesame Street and Nickelodeon's Dora the Explorer, due to lead paint it blamed on Lee Der. [18] Before hanging himself, he paid off all his 5,000 staff. [citation needed]

  4. RC2 Corporation - Wikipedia

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    By 2006, 91.8 percent of RC2's products were made in China. [3] In 2007, the company made headlines after it was forced to recall 1.5 million Thomas & Friends wooden toy trains after they were found to contain excessive amounts of lead. [3] [5] The toys involved in the recall had been manufactured in China. [3] RC2 was acquired by Takara Tomy ...

  5. Toymaker Schylling accused of knowingly selling lead paint ...

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    Toymaker Schylling Associates, which makes classic toys including many with the Curious George and Thomas & Friends brands, was accused of knowingly selling tens of thousands of its products that ...

  6. How to test for lead paint in your home and what to do if you ...

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    Lead was often mixed into oil-based paints before 1978, the year lead paint was banned for residential use in the U.S. Over time, oil-based paints will crack in a distinctive alligator scale-like ...

  7. Jo-Ann Fabric to pay $50,000 for toys with lead paint - AOL

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    Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores has agreed to pay a $50,000 penalty to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, settling allegations the company was selling children's toy watering cans and ...

  8. Lead paint - Wikipedia

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    In 2018 the State of Delaware banned the use of lead paint on outdoor structures. [36] Also, the Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act (a.k.a. the "Lead Paint Act") was created in order to ensure that the disclosure of any lead-based hazards in a building be discussed with potential buyers or renters of units.

  9. Poison Profits -- The Lead Paint Blame Game

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    From that month through January 2016, HPD issued more than 10,000 violations for dangerous lead paint conditions in units with children under 6, the age group most at risk of ingesting toxic paint. Half of the violations were in just 10 percent of the city’s zip codes, low-income neighborhoods in the Bronx, Brooklyn and northern Manhattan, a ...