ShareThisCheap Chinese Toys aren't all they're quacked up to be
This year, Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft stores will be paying a $50,000 fine to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission for lead paint found in the beak of a children's watering can resembling a rubber duck.
97,000 of these toys were recealled in 2007 in addition to some other children's gardening tools. The toys, not surprisingly, were manufactured in China.
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