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Plenty of toys for Christmas
28/09/2007
Despite a mass recall of more than 20m Mattel products in recent months, parents should not find it difficult to buy toys for their children to play with at this year’s Christmas party.
Natasha Crooks, a spokesperson for the British Toy and Hobby Association said stocks would recover for the Christmas party season: "There will not be any shortages we would not usually face in a usual year. Obviously there may be shortages on certain products which become favourites, but if we could predict those we could all retire." Several Mattel toys manufactured in China were recalled because of fears over the high levels of lead paint used in the products. Amongst the toys recalled were Barbie dolls, Fisher-Price characters such as Dora the Explorer, and Polly Pocket play sets, leading Thomas Debrowski, Mattel's Vice President for worldwide operations, to suggest his company had overreacted by recalling too many products. Mattel later apologised to senior officials in Beijing for blaming the problems on Chinese suppliers: the company admitted that in the "vast majority" of cases, flaws in its own designs were responsible for the high levels of lead paint and loose magnets that prompted safety scares.  Click here for more on London's best events and Christmas parties.
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