NEW YORK (AP)
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Mattel Inc., announced late Tuesday that it is recalling about 700,000 Chinese-made toys that have excessive amounts of lead paint.
The recall covers 675,000 units of various Barbie accessory toys that were manufactured between September 30, 2006, and August 20, 2007.
The action also involves 8,900 different toys involving Big Big World 6-in-1 Bongo Band toys from the company's Fisher-Price brand.
Those products were sold nationwide from July 2007 through August 2007.
"We've promised consumers that we'd tell them efficiently and openly if we found any additional affected toys, and that is what we are doing today," Mattel said in a statement.
"We apologize again to everyone affected and promise that we will continue to focus on ensuring the safety and quality of our toys," the company said.
Tuesday's announcement marks Mattel's third major toy recall of Chinese-made products because of lead paint in a matter of a month.
Mattel's last recall, announced on August 14, covered about 19 million toys worldwide.
They included Chinese-made toys that either had excessive amounts of lead paint or had small magnets that could easily be swallowed by children.
On August 1, Mattel's Fisher-Price division said it was recalling 1.5 million preschool toys featuring characters such as Dora the Explorer, Big Bird and Elmo because of lead paint.
That action included 967,000 toys sold in the United States between May and August.
Lead can cause brain damage when ingested by young children. Under current regulations, children's products found to have more than .06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.
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