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[greedyboy]

BEIJING, China (AP) -- The head of a Chinese manufacturing company accused of shipping hundreds of thousands of lead-tainted toys later recalled in the United States has committed suicide, a state-run newspaper said Monday.


Two toys of the same kind recalled by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission.





Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Company, killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint containing excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters.



Read the rest at http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/asiapc....ap/index.html

[Beneddie1112]

Wow. Were these sold in the Uk as well as US?

[SilverSurfer]

Poor china man.

[DSC]

Yes it covers most countries, just heard that some baby mugs have now had to be recalled. 19 million units from one company alone, probably looking at well into the hundred million units in total.