Mattel issues new massive China toy recall
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Green Design and Sustainable Engineering Industrial Design International Engineering Education Mechatronics |
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| Description: | MSNBC news article of August 14, 2007. There is also related links and a video clip with Robert Eckert, Mattel’s chairman and chief executive, talks with TODAY’s Meredith Vieira about the massive Mattel toy recall. Excerpt: "Mattel announced recalls Tuesday for 9 million more Chinese-made toys, including popular Barbie, Polly Pocket and “Cars” movie items, and warned that more could be ordered off store shelves because of lead paint and tiny magnets that could be swallowed. The recalls came nearly two weeks after Mattel Inc., the nation’s largest toy-maker, recalled 1.5 million Fisher-Price infant toys worldwide, which were also made in China, because of possible lead-paint hazards for children. The government warned parents to make sure children are not playing with any of the recalled toys." Caption: Toy-making giant Mattel issued a recall for about 9 million Chinese-made toys, including Polly Pocket dolls. |
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| Keywords: | supply chain design for environment offshore manufacturing |
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Tripple Bottom Line |
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(c) Design a system, component, or process (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context (j) Integrate knowledge of contemporary issues |
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Could be used with the Mattel Toy case study on the Color Spin or for case in what can go wrong when the U.S. loses oversight of the supply chain. |
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| Publication Date: | August 2007 |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20254745/ |
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