RC2 to pay $1.25M over 2007 toy recalls
By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 12/29/2009 9:15:00 AM
WASHINGTON—RC2 has agreed to pay a $1.25 million civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated federal regulations on lead in paint in 2007.
The penalty settlement, which has been provisionally accepted, by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission, resolves CPSC staff allegations that RC2 Corp. and one of its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Learning Curve Brands, knowingly (as defined by the Consumer Product Safety Act) imported and sold various Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys with paints or other surface coatings that contained lead levels above legal limits.
In May 2007, RC2 reported that more than two dozen styles of vehicles, buildings and other train set components from the Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway product line were determined to have paints with lead levels that exceeded the then-applicable regulatory limit of 0.06 percent. Later, in August and September 2007, RC2 further reported that five additional toys from this product line were determined to have exceeded this limit.
This civil penalty settles the following allegations:
• RC2 imported up to 1.5 million units of non-compliant Thomas & Friends™ Wooden Railway toys between January 2005 and June 2007, and distributed them to its retail customers for sale to U.S. consumers. These toys were recalled in June 2007.
• RC2 imported up to 200,000 units of five additional non-compliant toys from this product line between March 2003 and April 2007, and distributed them to its retail customers for sale to U.S. consumers. In September 2007, the original June 2007 recall was expanded to include these additional units.
“The highly publicized recall of Thomas & Friends Wooden Railway toys was a catalyst for Congressional action aimed at strengthening CPSC and making the lead-in-paint limits under federal law even stricter,” said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum.
In agreeing to the settlement, RC2 denied that it knowingly violated federal law, as alleged by CPSC staff.
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