Toy Makers Mount Drive to Salvage China’s Safety Reputation

Toy makers are instituting tougher quality controls in China and elsewhere to try to avoid repetition of the recalls that damaged the industry last year.

A Toy Maker’s Conscience

How a business-school professor and consultant for Mattel would turn ‘‘Made in China’’ into something other than a curse.

China Confirms Poison Was on Toy Beads

Also, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said that seven more children had been sickened by the toys.

Sleuthing for a Danger in Toy Beads

A biochemical geneticist’s story demonstrates how recalls come about, in a time when they are becoming routine.

China Bars Exports by 750 Toy Makers

The move was announced just days after U.S. legislators moved to bolster consumer protections and impose tougher penalties on companies that sell tainted or hazardous goods.

Senators Urge More Stringent Rules for Toy Safety

Robert A. Eckert, Mattel’s C.E.O., told Congress that the toy industry would work to prevent unsafe toys from entering the U.S.

Problems Go Beyond Lead Paint, Canadian Study Says

Design flaws, not Chinese manufacturing problems, are the cause of the vast majority of American toy recalls over the last two decades.

Why Lead in Toy Paint? It’s Cheaper

Paint with higher levels of lead often sells for a third of the cost of paint with low levels, so Chinese factory owners sometimes cut corners and use the cheaper leaded paint.

Scandal and Suicide in China: A Dark Side of Toys

The suicide of a Chinese businessman may have resulted in part from the pressures and contradictions of China’s loosely regulated brand of capitalism.

Mattel Recalls 19 Million Toys Sent From China

Amid a wave of increasing safety concerns about products made in China, Tuesday’s recall threatened to set the toy industry on its heels.

Trouble in China Is Good News for American Toy Manufacturers

Several manufacturers of American-made toys said that in recent weeks they have been inundated with calls inquiring about their products.

Owner of Chinese Toy Factory Commits Suicide

Zhang Shuhong’s company was behind the recall earlier this month of more than a million Mattel toys.

Head of lead-paint toy outlet commits suicide

The leader of a Hong Kong manufacturer whose lead-tainted Sesame Street toys were the center of a massive United States recall has killed himself.

Lead Paint Prompts Mattel to Recall 967,000 Toys

The maker of Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels cars is recalling the toys because of lead paint.

A Lesson That Thomas Could Teach

The toy train recall shows the realities of offshoring, but it isn’t clear that anyone involved has learned anything.

As More Toys Are Recalled, Trail Ends in China

China manufactured every one of the 24 kinds of toys recalled for safety reasons in the United States this year.

RC2’s Train Wreck

The company that recalled Thomas the Tank Engine wooden trains, which were contaminated with paint containing lead, is learning about crisis management.