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Toymakers Play Games With Regulations

Call for more safety testing a cynical move, Slate critic contends

By Jonas Oransky, Newser Staff

Posted Sep 12, 2007 12:01 PM CDT

(Newser) – The toy industry’s new safety-testing push may succeed in rebuilding trust, but it’s likely to leave dangerous ways unchecked—and the big guys know it, argues Slate’s E. Marla Felcher. The current scandals are matters of enforcement, not of the regulations themselves,... Read full story »

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