By B.JayakishoreFinally, after much of criticism and hue and cry over the safety of Chinese-made products, an executive of the Mattel toy company, the world’s largest toy maker, met China's top product safety official on Friday, to issue an apology.
On Friday, Mattel acknowledged that the company’s design flaws and safety control system are to blame rather than Chinese manufacturing glitches for the recent recalls of tens of millions of toys. (American company Mattel has outsourced its toy manufacturing activities to the Chinese toy making companies.)
According to news reports, Thomas A. Debrowski, Executive Vice President of Mattel’s for worldwide operations, apologized to China for harming the reputation of Chinese manufacturers.
“Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologizes personally to all the Chinese people, and all of our customers, who received the toys,” Debrowski told Li Changjiang, the head of China’s product-safety operation, in a visit to Beijing.
“The core problem for the recalled toys was the design flaw, instead of the manufacturers,” said Stefano Solo, an expert of the EU Consumer Affairs Commission to a news agency here.
China’s state media yesterday welcomed the toy maker’s apology over its recalls of Chinese-made toys. It said that although this apology came little late, now it should help in restoring the country’s sullied export reputation.
It can be recalled that recently more than ten labourers, who work for a Toy Exporting company in china have committed suicide; after Mattel, an American toy company, to which Chinese company supplies the products recalled all the Chinese toys.
According to the state-run Guangzhou Daily, Mattel’s apology was a little late “but at least it redressed injustice against toys made in China.”
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