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WASHINGTON – Toy maker Mattel Inc. and its Fisher-Price subsidiary have agreed to pay a $2.3 million civil penalty for importing and selling toys with excessive levels of lead.
The penalty is part of a settlement the companies reached with the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which announced Friday, that the toymaker had knowingly violated a 30-year-old federal ban on lead paint in toys.
Official: Mattel fined $2.3 million for toy hazard - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090605/ap_on_go_ot/us_toymaker_fined - broken link)