One-fifth of toys sold in Russia in 2007 failed to meet sanitary requirements

MOSCOW, March 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia’s federal consumer rights watchdog chief said one-fifth of children’s toys sold in Russia in 2007 hgad agield to meet sanitary standards.

“We have practically lost domestic toy production,” the head of the Federal Service for Supervision over the Protection of Consumer Rights and Wellbeing of the Population (Rospotrebnadzor), Gennady Onishchenko, said.

“The toys are brought to Russia mainly from China. Apart from moral and ethnical education, elementary safety is in question,” he said.

“Last year 260,000 toys were examined last year and 20 percent of them failed to meet toxicity and other requirements,” Onishchenko said.

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No, I'm not knocking or dissin' anything. For such an economy to benefit ANYBODY, there's got to be SOME structure.

If these toys are made in China, it's only going to add more merit that the world will want to shun China, possibly indefinitely. If you ask me, that's not a good thing to have happen and China is as valuable to the world as every other country. Do they feel betrayed or angry and as a result are willfully selling toxic or tainted goods?

There are so many tangents, but there's GOT to be some regulation involved! FOX Cable can have advertisers pissing on "regulations" and "Democrats who want regulations" and everything else. This isn't political; it's about common sense. Accidents happen, but at some point a pattern develops and needs to be addressed. Fairly.

http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/Investing/StockInvestingTrading/ChinaIntro_SeriesHome.aspx

One sign of many, the rumors of "exploitation" are not all entirely true. Some, you betcha, but not all. It can't be that big a media lie.

Most are made in China

because

it's 1/6 of the Earth's surface

and people live there.

It's too bad that they've lost a lot of that industry. Their wooden toys are gorgeous.