OKK Trading fined $665K over lead, safety recalls
By Staff -- Playthings, 6/25/2009 8:29:00 AM
WASHINGTON—The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has slapped OKK Trading, Commerce, Calif., with a civil penalty of $665,000 civil for a string of lead-related toy recalls and for violating other federal child safety standards.
The penalty settlement resolves CPSC staff allegations that from November 2007 through August 2008, OKK Trading knowingly imported and sold toys with paints that contained lead levels that exceeded legal limits.
[Editor’s note: Since January 2008, OKK Trading has had five separate recalls of primarily dollar store-sold toys due to excess levels of lead. ]
The settlement also resolves CPSC staff allegations that OKK Trading knowingly imported and sold toys, games, rattles, pacifiers and art materials that violated the Federal Hazardous Substances Act. These allegations include:
• From December 2004 through August 2008, OKK Trading imported and sold toys that had small parts in violation of CPSC regulations.
• From November 2004 through January 2005, OKK Trading imported rattles that violated CPSC's safety requirements for rattles.
• From July 2007 through January 2008, OKK Trading imported and sold pacifiers that violated CPSC's safety requirements for pacifiers, including the prohibition on small parts.
• From January 2005 through April 2007, OKK Trading imported toys and games that violated CPSC's labeling requirements for balloons, small balls, and small parts.
• From September 2005 through April 2007, OKK Trading imported art materials that violated CPSC's labeling requirements.
The settlement also covers staff allegations that from May 2007 through December 2007, the company knowingly exported noncompliant toys in violation of federal notification requirements.
OKK Trading informed CPSC that it received no reports of incidents or injuries involving the products covered by this settlement. In agreeing to the settlement, OKK Trading denies CPSC's allegations that it knowingly violated the law.
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