Product Safety Role Model Mattel Not So Safe: 1M Toys Recalled

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  AllanLeung09/11/07 Report as spam
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  Product safety role model Mattel not so safe

  I personally believed that product safety is highly important to the end-user, especially to the kids. Any chance that induces to bodily harms or injury is not acceptable.
  In the incidence of the recall of the toys failed in safety, I have a question that what is the thing gone wrong? Before a toy product going to public, there is a complicated procedures from design, materials, packaging, tests, safety measure, moulding, pre-production test, pre-production sample approval, in-line production test, in-line production sample approval, quality assurance & shipping sample test. Until all the above procedures approved and certified, products can be shipped.
  Imagine who can approve shipment? The buying firm. Vendors or manufacturers did not participate in the part of product design, lab test and product approval. If they let the vendors responsible for the results of recall, it is not fair. The manufacturer works as a servant that does not has power of decision making in the whole process.
  Politically, the decision maker should take the whole responsibility. The buying firm is a leader, a decision maker, factories appraiser, monitor the manufacturing process??.. So there are reasons that the buying firm holds the major responsibility.
  When we see the developing countries still suffering from severe air and water pollution, we can imagine they are the big losers from the international trades. If it is a fair trade, those countries can be improved in health and wealth. Now we see the result is not that positive. The average wage of a worker in China is about USD100 per month. In this world, only buyers have bargaining power ? for they control everything. Fair trade is still a long and winding way.
  
  Allan Leung ? Toronto, Canada