Mattel, Fisher-Price to Pay $2.3 Million Civil Penalty for Violating Federal Lead Paint Ban
On Friday, June 5, 2009, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that Mattel, Fisher-Price would have to pay a $2.3 million civil penalty for violating a Federal Lead Ban. The penalty is the highest ever for CPSC regulated product violations. According to the CPSC "the penalty settlement . . . resolves CPSC staff allegations that Mattel and Fisher-Price knowingly (as defined in the Consumer Product Safety Act) imported and sold children’s toys with paints or other surface coatings that contained lead levels that violated a 30-year-old federal law. In 1978, a federal ban was put in place which prohibited toys and other children’s articles from having more than 0.06 percent lead (by weight) in paints or surface coatings." http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml09/09237.html
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