Schylling fined $200K over 2007 toy recalls
By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 2/5/2010 7:06:00 AM
WASHINGTON—Schylling Associates will pay a $200,000 civil penalty to settle allegations that it violated federal lead paint standards and failed to immediately report to the Consumer Product Safety Commission that some of its products were non-compliant with those standards.
The settlement resolves the following allegations:
• Schylling imported up to 66,000 units of non-compliant spinning top toys with Thomas and Friends, Curious George and Circus graphics between June 2001 and June 2002, and distributed them to its retail business customers for sale to consumers.
• Schylling imported as many as 10,200 units of non-compliant tin pail toys with Thomas and Friends, Curious George and Primary Colors graphics from late January 2002 through March 2002, and distributed about 4,700 of them to its retail customers for sale to consumers.
• Schylling also imported as many as 3,600 units of non-compliant Winnie-the-Pooh style spinning top toys between April and May 2003, and distributed them to its retail customers for sale to consumers.
Although it eventually notified the CPSC about the toys cited in 2007, Schylling knew or should have known by 2002, according to the CPSC, that most of the toys did not comply with the lead paint ban and that it failed to report this information to the government in a timely manner.
Instead of notifying CPSC immediately, in 2002 Schylling conducted a unilateral recall of the distributed pails by seeking their return from affected retail business customers, CPSC said.
Within weeks of being notified of each of these violations in 2007, CPSC announced the firm’s voluntary recall of the products first in August and for additional toys in November of that year.
“Manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers have a legal obligation to ensure that no banned products are introduced into or distributed in the U.S. marketplace, and to inform CPSC as soon as they become aware of information that must be reported under our laws. We will continue to penalize companies that do not follow these basic requirements,” said CPSC Chairman, Inez Tenenbaum.
In agreeing to the settlement, Schylling denies that it violated federal law, as alleged by CPSC staff.
Re: Brooklyn Boy... You're assuming none of the retailers that bought the
product had sold any of the lead-tainted toys at the time of Schylling's
secret recall. What about the consumers who probably wound up having those toys
in their homes for five years without being notified of the potential
danger to their children?
Never Trust a Businessman - 2010-02-23 20:19:00 EST
product had sold any of the lead-tainted toys at the time of Schylling's
secret recall. What about the consumers who probably wound up having those toys
in their homes for five years without being notified of the potential
danger to their children?
by instituting their own recall right away in 2002, Schylling probably got back ALL of the affected items in the fastest way possible. They should be applauded for their quick response.
brooklyn boy - 2010-02-10 08:38:00 EST
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