Perhaps we can take a lesson?? The AP reports today that families in China that can afford it opt out of buying Chinese toys for their kids and opt into buying foreign imported toys..

Perhaps American can achieve the same objective but in a reversed style: Opt into buying toys exported and opt out of buying cheap toys made with questionable paint from China?

From the AP story, ""I dare not buy cheap wooden toys or toys with paint," said Lin Yan, a professor at Shanghai International Studies University, whose 7-year-old daughter tested for elevated levels of lead in her blood. "I have a stupid standard: I buy her expensive toys in big department stores. I can only assume most of the expensive ones are foreign brands and are guaranteed to have better quality," said Lin. When her daughter is given toys she suspects are unsafe, she throws them away. "Sometimes they have indescribable odors," she said."

That smell under this year's Christmas tree may just a bargain that parents should have never looked for.

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