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Chinese government and companies sometimes say we will have our labs
test products for safety, then you will trust us. But now we see
that does not work either.
More toy recalls are hiding
behind the corporate curtains in the U.S. - Target, Dollar General, and
Discount School Supply for example. These companies have found lead painted toys, but have not announced it because the Consumer Product Safety Commission is investigating or negotiating recall terms.
Shalom
International imports jewelry in New York. It recalled 280,000
children's rings this year though a Chinese testing lab it hired in
December - CMA Testing and Certification Laboratories in Hong Kong -
allegedly tested and passed the goods.
“You can’t trust the Chinese to do what they say they are
doing,” Mr. Green [V.P. of Shalom] said. “They all say, ‘We are using
lead-free paint and lead-free components.’ Experience shows they are
not.”
There are a lot of ways to say you are testing, but are not really testing.
Do you wipe the painted surface for dust? If there is no dust,
you don't get lead. Do you test paint chips? If so, do you
you use "Atomic Spectrometry" to show the volume of lead in a sample,
or the Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP) to determine
how the lead would leach out in a landfill?
Do you use
standardized collection methods for collecting samples? Do you
use standard practice to prepare the sample for testing?
Is
a portable XRF instrument used? Is that instrument operated
according to accepted procedures? Was substrate correction
done? What units are the results reported in?
Were the lab technicians trained properly? Was contamination of the sample avoided?
There are a lot of ways to say you are "testing", but you are not.
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