During 2007, the Year of the Pig, Mattel is forced to recall almost 20 million items made in China because of lead paint on toy cars and tiny magnets that could be deadly if swallowed. Lead paint problems are also found in 844,000 Chinese-made Barbie accessories and toys with the Sesame Street brand. Pet food makers recall more than 60 million cans of food laced with tainted melamine in wheat gluten from China. A huge underground distribution network for steroids, human growth hormones, and other bodybuilding drugs is traced to 37 companies in China. Chinese-made lunch boxes, given away by the California Department of Public Health to promote healthy eating habits among children, are found to contain lead. Nike recalls 235,000 football helmets because the Chinese-made chin cup has a defective strap and has caused at least two concussions and a broken nose. Ethylene glycol is found in Chinese-made toothpaste. The government of China executes the former head of its State Food and Drug Administration.

Mattel has always been a company that relys on foreign companies to make their products so we had to know something bad would happen eventually.

They need to get with the program and put the children first and not the dollar. I stopped buying their products and so did everyone in my family.

What is worse is people keep buying products from them. You would think that since Americans are the largest consumers if they simply stopped buying the crap made there and said make it in America or we will go somewhere else they would have to. But Americans keep buying the junk.