Oct.12.2007 Your Pooh is full of lead

So Pooh is being sold at JC Penney’s and, it turns out, that over 70 thousand Pooh pieces need to be recalled. Immediately. That’s a lot of Pooh.

J.C. Penney recalled Chinese-made Winnie the Pooh play sets and decorative ornaments with a horse-theme, as well as art kits made in Taiwan and Vietnam. Totaling 70,400, the toys imported and sold by J.C. Penney all had excessive levels of lead in their surface paint.

Lead is toxic if ingested by young children. Under current regulations, children’s products found to have more than 0.06 percent lead accessible to users are subject to a recall.

An additional 20,300 Chinese-made toys were recalled by three other companies, according to CPSC. Miniature Jeff Gordon NASCAR helmets by Riddell Inc., bendable dinosaur toys by Kipp Brothers, and magnetic art kits by Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores were also recalled for lead-contamination.

That amount of contaminated Pooh is dangerous…even potentially deadly. Let’s be careful the next time we import Pooh from places like Vietnam, shall we?

I had to do this. I don’t know why. But I had to.

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