MEGA BLOCKS con exceso de plomo en sus productos

[lluisgib]

Siempre no sponemos a criticar a LEGO por lo que hace, pero hay otras marcas que también tienen problemas y, en este caso, es un problema bastante grave.

https://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/business/worldbusiness/19safety.html

A lo mejor tenemos que agradecer que el problema de LEGO solo sea la diferencia de pigmentación....  :guino:

Saludos

Lluís

[LeGoLiTo]

La gravedad ya lo es de por si en la noticia. Lo que me parece increíble que encima Mega blocks quiera encubrir la noticia para salvar su economía en vez de la salud de los niños.

Un error así se puede cometer por diferentes motivos, por culpa de un tercero, de su distribuidor de materia prima no le ha informado bien, por un mal control químico en esa tirada del producto ... etc.... etc ...etc...

Esto le ha sucedido a múltiples marcas en nuestro ámbito comercial e internacional, sea alimenticio, ropa, accesorios, complementos.... incluso infantiles, pero rápidamente se aparta del mercado por propuesta de la misma firma o del gobierno. Incluso cuando todavía no habido una confirmación del 100%x100% de su peligrosidad, pero lo hacen para prevenir y no perjudicar al consumidor.

Pero en cambio esta firma Canadiense, según el articulo de tu link, se manifiesta contraria e intenta encubrir las pruebas, es INDIGNANTE!!!!!  >:( >:( >:(

[jmacias]

Ya tiene otro juicio pendiente por la línea de imanes...

[Silvestre7109]

no me deja leer la noticia... me dice que me registre...  Pero bueno.. leyendo entre lineas vuestros comentarios se adivina que habrán detectado alguna Toxicidad en el plástico de los brick's de esta conocida "Copia" y no se están comportando como deberían... me equivoco?

[lluisgib]

OTTAWA, Oct. 18 — After rebuffing a toy maker's effort to block publication, a Canadian consumer magazine is reporting that a popular line of children's blocks sold throughout North America contains high lead levels.

In an article that will be available at newsstands on Friday, the magazine, Protégez-Vous, said that tests conducted by an independent laboratory had found that some samples of Mega Bloks Maxi plastic building bricks exceeded the lead limit of 600 parts per million set by the Canadian and American governments.

The Maxi series blocks are intended for young children and are made in Montreal by Mega Brands, which has extensive operations and distribution in the United States.

Health Canada, a government department, said that the preliminary results of tests on a random sample of the blocks last week showed "no quantifiable total lead content in the plastic." Mega Brands, which unsuccessfully sought a court injunction against the nonprofit magazine this week, also vigorously denied that its products exceeded regulatory lead limits.

The dispute between the toy maker and the publisher centers not on the magazine's reported findings, however, but on what constitutes an appropriate test for lead in some kinds of plastic toys.

David Clerk, the magazine's publisher and the executive director of Les Editions Protégez-Vous, said that after consulting with Health Canada, the magazine hired an independent lab in Quebec to perform what he called a "total lead test" on 32 toys, including the Maxi blocks. Essentially, the process involves scraping off a sample of the toy's plastic, dissolving it in acid and then analyzing the solution.

When the results were returned by a lab, which Mr. Clerk said he could not identify because of a confidentiality agreement, a yellow Maxi block was the only toy that exceeded the 600-parts-per-million limit for lead set by Canada and the United States. Blue and red Maxi blocks showed no lead at all.

For confirmation, the magazine tested a second yellow block. It contained 1,180 parts per million of lead, nearly double the initial result.

Harold Chizick, a spokesman for Mega Brands, said that the magazine had used an inappropriate test for this kind of toy. "We do not have a lead problem," he said. "It is a misleading test to do on that part."

When testing plastic toys that are not painted, Health Canada, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission and Bureau Veritas, a testing lab under contract to Mega Brands, perform what the industry calls a migration test.

Mr. Chizick said such tests simulated how much lead would seep out of a toy if, for example, a child put it in his or her mouth.

Donald L. Mays, the senior director of product safety planning at Consumers Union, which publishes the magazine Consumer Reports, said migration tests typically analyzed a solution, often vinegar, that was left sitting on the toy's surface for a period of time.

Both Mr. Clerk and Mr. Mays said that their publications believed that the migration test made too many assumptions about how toys would be used and how they would deteriorate over time.

"This is a loophole," Mr. Clerk said. "Why is it that in 2007 we are still finding lead in toys?"

Lead is sometimes added to plastics to give them yellow or red color, Mr. Mays said. Alternative pigments sometimes are more costly and often have longer drying times.

Mr. Chizick of Mega Brands did not directly respond when asked if his company would find high lead levels if it performed total lead tests on the yellow blocks, at one point calling the question "hypothetical."

Consumers Union is pushing American regulators to switch to total lead tests for all products used by children, Mr. Mays said.

"When you look at migration, you have to make several assumptions about what the risks are," Mr. Mays said. "Why go there when you do not have to have lead in the products to begin with?"

The Consumer Product Safety Commission did not respond to requests for comment. Joey Rathwell, a spokeswoman for Health Canada, said the department was reviewing its lead regulations.

[Kiko]

¿Y qué co** hace el plomo en los ladrillos de plástico?

[LeGoLiTo]

la pintura suelen contener plomo.

[lluisgib]

¿Y qué co** hace el plomo en los ladrillos de plástico?

Coloración. Según dice el artículo, sirve para las coloraciones Amarilla y Roja,y reduce el tiempo de secado de la pieza.

Lluís

(Por favor, elimina la palabra con los 2 asteriscos. Gracias)

[Kiko]

Ahm, no sabía lo de la pintura.

Los asteriscos los he puesto voluntariamente, para contenerme del cabreo, porque no entiendo por qué se emplea el plomo (que es tóxico) en juguetes para niños :guino:

[Legotron]

Es lo de siempre, cuando están en juego los beneficios el resto da igual...

[Jetro]

no entiendo por qué se emplea el plomo (que es tóxico) en juguetes para niños :guino:

Es mas bien la falta de previsión a la hora de especificar que no se debería usar, cuando la norma es usarlo. Paso algo similar conunos maletines que se prepararon para estudiantes de primaria en Holanda hace años. Los encargó el ministerio de educación pero elvidó especificar (o la empresa olvidó preguntarlo) que no contuviesen cádmio....

[Silvestre7109]

Mattel no hace ni dos meses tuvo el mismo problema teniendo que retirar ciertos productos de la gama BARBIE de sus almacenes...   pero al menos no puso pegas en retirarlos...

[Axadder]

Si, realmente lo triste es que traten de ocultarlo... qué lamentable. Aún con sus problemas de distribución y precios relativamente elevados, sé que eso no pasará con lego.