Health committee  The mandatory third party testing is part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Are you asking me if I object to it?

Health committee  The basis for it, obviously, is to remove any proprietary testing and put the responsibility on third party testing. In the United States, before 2007 and before the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act was in place, you did not have to have any testing done to the product to

Health committee  We typically line up with the most onerous standard, as a company, in order to be able to design one product and distribute it throughout the world.

Health committee  I can't comment for the industry at large. The only thing I can tell you is that this has been our practice.

Health committee  The only comment I can make on Proposition 65, as I indicated before to the panel, is that we are shipping products throughout the world, including California, and we have not yet had any issues with Proposition 65. We do not label the products.

Health committee  We have seen it primarily in Europe. As a matter of fact, it's a double sin, in some instances, in that it's not only counterfeit; it also fails regulations. For the most part, counterfeiters are very smart. They know how to get away with it. They know how to appear and how to

Health committee  I'm sure it has been an issue in North America, but I'm not aware of any specific toy counterfeiting, if you will. We had some issues about six or seven years ago with one of our products.

Health committee  We obviously don't have any objections. I thought we moved from incident reporting into recall information. I think we all agree we need to report serious hazard issues. When it comes to reporting recalls, we are in favour of public websites and informing the consumers and info

Health committee  I don't represent Fisher Price. Obviously I don't know how their recalls have been conducted and all that. I don't know what their systems are. I think every responsible company and every responsible manufacturer should be doing the recalls as effectively as they possibly can t

Health committee  Correct. They still do, but there are also regulations that deal with the balance and the stability of those. Health Canada has regulations on the stability of those toys, as do other countries. That doesn't mean the product is dangerous or defective. There are incidents that n

Health committee  On the reporting obligation, on the safety reports to the government, we obviously would like to see some classification of what products need to be reported. For example, if a child is riding a tricycle or a bicycle and falls off and gets a bump on his head, we all know--we have

Health committee  It's a very good question. I have been in the toy industry for 19 years now. The question about sound-emitting toys has been challenged by virtually every country in the world. I've participated in standards-setting processes in the United States and Europe, as well as the ISO st

Health committee  Obviously, we were surprised to hear about all these issues. Our immediate reaction as brands and as manufacturers was to make sure that.... For example, on behalf of my company, we knew that we had certain policies and procedures in place, but our immediate reaction was that the

Health committee  We certainly support the disclosure of information. We support the quality of the disclosure of information, that is, and not the quantity of the disclosure of information. What I mean by that is.... I have experience on disclosing information, because the Consumer Products Saf

Health committee  In our business, obviously, safety is the top priority. Therefore, the cost will become secondary.