International Toy Fair to Focus on Quality

October 25, 2007 at 2:51 PM General Health News
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International Toy Fair to Focus on Quality
After the recent outcry over recalling China-made toys by Mattel Inc because of high levels of toxins in them, quality of toys will be the highlight of the 2008 edition of the biggest toy fair in the world. The International Toy Fair, held in Germany every year since 1950, will next year focus on quality of toys. The weeklong fair opens Feb 7 in Nurnberg.

Ernst Kick, CEO of Spielwarenmesse eG, the main organiser of the fair, said that although controlling quality of products is not their domain, they will nevertheless do whatever is possible in order to ensure that the quality of toys is not compromised with.

"To do our bit in controlling the quality of toys exhibited in the fair, we have decided to hold a quality competition among exhibitors in which their products will be tested by a panel of quality researchers," Kick told IANS.

In the capital to promote the 2008 chapter of the fair, Kick said that after toy giant Mattel Inc recalled nine million China-made toys sold in the US in August this year because they contained lead paint or small magnets that could fall off and be swallowed by children, quality of toys has become a crucial matter which needs immediate attention.

"After the furore over the toxic toys, quality of toys have come to the limelight and rightly so. Thus, quality will be the limelight in our fair as well, where we will encourage better quality and safe products," he said.

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