THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE TOY TRAIN RECALL

Source: Post Chronicle

Thomas The Tank Engine Train Recall - RC2 Corp has recalled various Thomas The Tank Engine Train toys due to a possible lead poisoning hazard.

In cooperation with the CPSC, RC2 issued a voluntary recall on June 13th, 2007, of various Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway vehicles and wooden train set components sold at toy stores and other retailers nationwide from January 2005 through June 2007.

The recall involves specific wooden vehicles, buildings and other train set components listed in the chart below. Surface paints on the recalled products have been reportedly determined to contain lead. Lead is toxic if ingested and is known to cause severe health problems.

Toys listed below marked with codes containing "WJ" or "AZ" are not included in this recall.

Recalled Product Names Red James Engine & Red James' # 5 Coal Tender
Red Lights & Sounds James Engine & Red James' #5
Lights & Sounds Coal Tender
James with Team Colors Engine & James with Team Colors #5 Coal Tender
Red Skarloey Engine
Brown & Yellow Old Slow Coach
Red Hook & Ladder Truck & Red Water Tanker Truck
Red Musical Caboose
Red Sodor Line Caboose
Red Coal Car labeled "2006 Day Out With Thomas" on the Side
Red Baggage Car
Red Holiday Caboose
Red "Sodor Mail" Car
Red Fire Brigade Truck
Red Fire Brigade Train
Deluxe Sodor Fire Station
Red Coal Car
Yellow Box Car
Red Stop Sign
Yellow Railroad Crossing Sign
Yellow "Sodor Cargo Company" Cargo Piece
Smelting Yard
Ice Cream Factory

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Bastards! This involves 1.5 million toys that toddlers chew on and rub like genie bottles.

My child loves James and Skarloey and is crying like crazy like now cause we literally had to take away his favorite toys.

Now we have to wonder if he has lead poisoning! Fuckers! What is our government doing!?

that would mean my boys had them. :(

when corporate America lays down with dogs it gets up with poisoned fleas.

Most news stories are saying 2005. My last Thomas purchase was probably 2004. We must have spent 1000 bucks on Thomas stuff in the early 2000s. I can't even begin to wrap my head around how many children this recall is affecting, whether it's my son or not! Where is the accountability?

My son has been playing with these toys for three years. Again I ask where is the fucking oversight?!!!

Fuck those scum who steal our money and give it to Haliburton and Blackwater while people die in ERs, our teeth rot out of our skulls, and we all get driven into wage slavedom!

P-I-S-S-E-D!!

:nuke: :nuke: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :nuke: :grr: :nuke: :nuke: :grr:

.....since we all know that the smallest government is obviously the best government (how do I make the "sarcasm" thingie go here?).

I suspect Thomas the Tank Engine et al is but the tip of the iceberg: first standards for toxins in water lowered, then standards for environment gutted by Bush's esteemed "Clear Skies Initiative", then poison dogfood, then highly suspect human food, probably pharmaceuticals next (we just haven't "discovered" the smoking cannon there, I'm sure). And what do you suppose they will allow power companies to do with the spent fuel rods from the nuclear plants they are proposing to wean us off hydrocarbon power?

In short, if it will kill or maim humans but enrich the corporate class, then Bushco will pave the way for it to become reality. Soylent Green is right around the corner.

I do hope there is a special place in Hell reserved for these thugs.

sorry, couldn't resist.

:rofl:

It was the most recent one we bought. <sigh> My daughter really loves her trains.

BTW, we are going to Day Out With Thomas on Sunday, so I am going to print this list and watch out for these toys while we are there.

Thanks so much for posting! :hi:

American business was run out of business because they offered a comparatively quality/safe product.
But the profiteers all were after the quick buck and decided for us that quality is not as important as low price/high profit for the corporations.

I happened to be at the vet's today and saw a women with a small child who was wearing a TTTE shirt. I asked the women if she had heard about the recall and she hadn't and was grateful for the alert because her son may have some of the wooden toys.

In a press release earlier today Sir Topham Hatt declared himself most unhappy with the recent discovery. "Coming on top of the repairs needed to increase the capacity of Henry's firebox and the rising price of Welsh coal this latest news is a blow to the industry," he said. Annie and Clarabel are most fussed and distressed as carriages so often are. Meanwhile, on the Flying Kipper run to Crewe a train derailment meant that both Percy and Gordon were late (again.)

There always seems to be some sort of trouble with his little railway!

My older grandson is a Thomas fanatic. I sent the article to my stepson right away! :scared:

1 or 2 years ago about Wal-Mart said something about federal standards on product safety being relaxed for Chinese crap.

Anyone remember this?

I still wonder about Melissa and Doug toys. Their customer service rep would not directly answer my question about whether or not their products contained lead paint. She just kept repeating, "we comply with US standards". It's exactly those US standards that worry me!

To the greatest page with this one! People need to see this.

when they drive manufacturing from the U.S. to China to save a little money?

I'll give you 3 guesses and the first 2 don't count...

You guessed right....China!!! How about that?

Freaks.

Edited to include link to Chinese origin:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070614/hl_nm/toys_dc

I realized that all of my mugs (at least those I have purchased in the last five years) were Made in China where lead is commonly used in glazes for the colors. I did a search today and see that there are approved manufacturers that supposedly don't use lead, but I'm not sure I would trust the accuracy of the list, and there isn't any system that can guarantee safety. I could buy a lead testing kit and find out if there was a high level of lead.

Rep. Waxman lamented the high levels of lead found in the small amount of vitamins imported from China that have been tested. And guess what country is making most of the world's vitamins and supplements? I've stopped taking any since the manufacturers of mine can't tell me where the ingredients came from. Imported from Japan is kind of a give-away, I'm afraid. Japan wouldn't be importing Vitamin C from Germany. There is only one plant in the West that makes Vitamin C now. Too bad everything was shipped to China without any concern for the eventual products' safety.

because of ingredient "fear". My 16 month old tested with high lead levels in his blood at 6 mos of age when all he'd had was breastmilk. All our drinking and cooking water is filtered. The only thing that I could think of was our dishes and the vitamins. We'd already stripped the lead paint in our house (tested it with lead sticks). I still don't know if it goes through breastmilk or not, but mercury does so it's reasonable to assume other things do.

I think I'm going to just stick with things with high levels of folate from NATURAL sources in hopes that everything will be okay.

How do we find Vitamin C from Germany? Have you found a product with it?

imports from China. How about just eating good whole foods that have vitamin C? I do think that eating a well balanced diet is preferable to taking supplements/vitamins anyway. If there is a farmer's market nearby, you can get fresher food, in season. Here's a link to food sources of Vitamin C.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5552.html

markets" are NOT selling locally grown goods. Out here many of them go to the same wholesale market, and buy the same crap produce that the supermarkets buy, take it to the "farmers' market" on Saturday and sell it at inflated prices.

Unless your town does a good job of policing the vendors and tries to make sure they are selling locally grown goods, it can be very difficult to know if you're getting locally grown produce.

This pisses me off to no end. I live in OK. Many of the "farmers' markets" in the state are certified as carrying "grown in Oklahoma" products only (I'm not sure what the policing mechanism is here, though). The one in our town is not, though - all kinds of stuff from dog-knows-where is sold there. Several times I've shelled out big bucks for what I *thought* were locally grown tomatoes (you know, tomatoes with FLAVOR, like they used to have), and they ended up being the same tasteless, crappy things the supermarkets call "tomatoes". ARGGGGGHHHHH. The closest "grown in Oklahoma" market is a 30-minute drive away, and I hate to use all the gasoline to drive there...

Hope you have a peaceful and comfortable pregnancy.

Did I wake up in 1955 or something?

In case anyone is wondering, Lead was used as the white "base" in paint, and can be mixed to create all other colors possible. It was replaced by Titanium Dioxide due to TIO2's non-toxic properties. I cannot believe that lead is still used for coloring at all, unless its cheaper than TIO2.

I have more to worry about than just a few toy trains.