Editorial

Mattel and Fisher Price have been recalling many toys in the last couple months from China due to lead paint and other substances on the toys. America has been importing over nine million toys from China. Barbie, Batman, and Polly Pocket are some of the toys that have been recalled because of a lead paint issue.
American officials are saying they are tired of waiting for China to crack down on the recalls. Rep. Mike Ferguson is saying China needs to meet the standards of America. They stopped selling the toys and began investigating the toys. Officials began investigating in July when they found out toys may be hazardous. They finally began pulling toys off the shelves of toy stores.
Instead of just pulling the toys off the shelves, American officials need to go into further investigations. These Chinese manufactures need to be told what to do. The toys in their country contain some lead paint. So for them to use lead should have been expected. The toys should have been properly inspected before being put on the shelves. I would like to know these toys are looked at before my children were to play with them.
A California attorney general agrees with me that the toys need to be better inspected. There is a law suit saying the manufacturers sold the toys containing lead paint. If won, the manufactures would have to change their procedures to selling toys and inspect them to the fullest.
If the manufactures properly inspected all the toys, the situation would have been taken care of a long time ago. America assumed everything was fine and when it comes to children, the strictest rules should be enforced. Making more rules for manufacturing companies to follow would be beneficial along with better inspecting policies instead of just taking toys off the shelves.