This is a season of attacks aimed at China and retail chains that stock toys because of the earlier discovery that a very popular toy in the US had detectable and harmful traces of lead metal in them. Protectionists took advantage to blame China and justify blocking Chinese imports into the US in particular and other parts of the world.
David Leonhardt writes here that he sought to test for the ubiquity of lead-laden toys by picking them off shelves of the major retailing corporations in the US such as Walmart and others. His results confirm that despite the strident attacks against Walmart, none of the toys picked from its stores failed the test as measured by the permissible levels of lead. This is proof that Walmart is not successful by default and it is careful to observe the regulatory standards.
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