Last year, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 17.6 million Chinese-made toys that were found to have excessive levels of lead.  Unfortunately, unsafe toys and products continue to arrive from China, with $50,000 worth of lead-based toy jewelry being seized in Seattle two weeks ago. Under these circumstances, parents are right to be concerned about the quality and safety of children’s costumes for Halloween.  Miami’s CBS4 TV reports that a Chinese-made Halloween costume lacking safe, fire-retardant materials, caught fire and burned a 4-year-old boy.  According to CBS, the buy’s mother “had no idea when she chose her son's costume for Halloween that it was not flame retardant. She says it was made in China and manufactured by Disguise, a company that - according to its website - is the world's leading costume manufacturer.” Disguise’s website notes that it brings “over ten million costumes to the American market each year.”  ManufactureThis has inquired of Disguise as to whether those 10 million costumes are all imported, and whether those costumes are sourced from China.  Saying “Trick or Treat” is a Halloween tradition.  But being tricked by potentially unsafe costumes is no treat, indeed.