Target fined $600K for lead recalls
By Staff -- Playthings, 10/2/2009 12:33:00 PM
WASHINGTON—Target Corp. will pay a $600,000 civil penalty for importing and selling toys that violated federal lead paint standards, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission said this week.
The penalty settlement, which has been provisionally accepted by the CPSC, resolves government allegations that from May 2006 through August 2007, Target knowingly imported and sold various toys—including Kool Toyz products manufactured by Hong Kong’s Toy Century Industrial; Anima–Bamboo Collection Games made by HaPe International of Ningbo, China; and Happy Giddy Gardening Tools and Sunny Patch Chairs by Starite International of Taiwan—with paint or other surface coatings that contained lead levels above legal limits.
“These highly publicized toy recalls were among many that helped spur action last year to impose even stricter limits on lead paint on toys,” said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum. “This penalty should remind importers and retailers that they have always had the same obligation to meet the strict lead limits as the manufacturers.”
In agreeing to the settlement, Target denied CPSC's allegations that it violated the law.
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