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RC2 to Pay $1.25 Million Penalty for Lead in Toys

By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 12/30/2009 7:50:00 AM

Washington, DC — RC2 Corp., Oak Brook, IL, has agreed to pay a $1.25 million civil penalty for allegedly violating the federal lead paint ban. The penalty settlement, which has been provisionally accepted by the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC), resolves CPSC staff allegations that RC2 Corp. and one of its wholly owned subsidiaries, Learning Curve Brands Inc., knowingly imported and sold up to 1.7 million units of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys with paints or other surface coatings that contained lead levels above legal limits. CPSC staff alleged that RC2 failed to take adequate action to ensure that the toys would comply with the lead paint ban. This failure created a risk of lead poisoning and adverse health effects to children. (The products, all during or before 2007, were recalled.) In agreeing to the settlement, RC2 denies that it knowingly violated federal law.

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