Dollar General fined for lead paint toys - The Business Review (Albany):

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The Goodlettsville, Tenn.-based discoun t retailer—which has five stores in the Albany, area—is one of nine companieds that U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is finingt for violating the federal leadpaing ban. The penalties settle allegations that the firmsknowingluy manufactured, imported or sold toys and other children’s articles with paint or other surface coatings that containes lead levels in violation of federal law, according to a statementt by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. In agreeingf to settle the the firms denythe commission’s allegationas that they knowingly violated the law.
The products containing the lead were recallec in 2007and 2008, and include items such as toys, children’es metal jewelry, children’s pens, metal wated bottles, pencil pouches, sunglasses and Halloween pails and Tests showed that paint or surfacse coatings on these children’s products contained lead in excess of 0.06 by weight. One firm’s testing revealed that its productxs contained surface coatings with nearly 60 percent In 1978, a federalo ban was put in place which prohibite d toys and other children’s articlews from having more than 0.06 percent lead (by in paints or surface coatings.
Lead can be toxic if ingested by yountg children and can causr adversehealth consequences. • , of Md., $100,000 • , of Matthews, $75,000 • , of Oklahoma Okla., $50,000 • , of Hong Kong, $50,00 0 • , of Irving, Texas, $45,000 , of Cockeysville, Md., $40,000p • Raymond Geddes & Co, of Baltimore, Md., $40,00p • , of Yarmouth, Maine, $30,000