| ■ Target Pulls Valentines Day Bears From Shelves | 2010.02.12 |
| A warning about illegal levels of lead have forced Target Corp. to pull Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from store shelves. The move comes after the company received a letter Monday from California Attorney General Jerry Brown saying that tests showed the Chinese-made toys had lead levels that violated federal law, the Associated Press reported. Brown was alerted about the toys by the nonprofit Center for Environmental Health, which found that vinyl letters on the bears' chests contained lead levels well above the federal limit for children's products. "We are removing the product from shelves as well as hard-locking them at the registers," Target spokeswoman Beth Hanson told the AP. "Target's initial investigation indicates this product had compliant testing results when it was shipped." |