A California company has been forced to pay a $25,000 civil fine for products liability reasons after allegedly repeatedly imported childrens’ products with high amounts of lead.
Excelligence Learning Corporation – a Monterey, California-based company – was fined because of high lead concentrations in about 33,000 units of their children’s products. On December 4th, the Consumer Product Safety Commission determined that their products had unsafe high levels of lead.
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury lawyers know the hazards of lead-based products. Lead poisoning was a large issue before lead-based paints were heavily regulated. Lead poisoning can lead to permanent physical disabilities and children’s injuries if they are exposed to high concentrations of it.
Excelligence does business as Discount School Supply, and the contaminated products included shaving paint brushes, play mats and large measuring charts. High levels of lead were also found in paints from 2000 to 2007. All of those products were recalled in 2007 and 2008. The report does not state where the products were imported from, but no matter where they come from, companies making or importing childrens’ products need to be careful about the products they put on the market.
Children are more likely to suffer from lead poisoning than adults. Infants are especially more vulnerable because they are still in developmental stages. High exposure to lead can cause serious personal injury or permanent defects those children will have to deal with for the rest of their lives.
Our personal injury attorneys want to urge companies that are in the business of making childrens’ products to make sure what they sell doesn’t cause harm to kids. Extra care needs to be taken with these items because children are at high risk for injury or physical conditions from contamination of the products they use every day.
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About Michael PinesMichael Pines is a former insurance company attorney who specializes in car accident injury. While he was an insurance attorney, he learned from behind the scenes on how insurance companies work and how they decided to pay injured people. Now that he works against insurance companies, Michael's inside knowledge has resulted in significant benefits to his clients injured in car accidents.
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