Toy Recalls Down With Import Screening Finding More Violations, CPSC Says

The Consumer Product Safety Commission and CBP have stopped more than 8 million units of about 4,500 different types of toys and children’s products that violate safety standards over the past four years, CPSC said (here). Toy recalls have continued to decline from 172 in fiscal year 2008, including 19 for lead, to 24 in fiscal year 2016, with only one involving a lead violation, it said. CPSC and CBP stopped more than 10.5 million products at the border in fiscal year 2015, a 123 percent increase from the previous year, CPSC said in another recent press release (here). Screenings were also up 25 percent in FY 2015 from the previous year, and CPSC found 63 percent more shipments with violations, including 75 percent more shipments of children’s products with violations, it said. About 85 percent of the violative shipments came from China.