{"id":3499,"date":"2007-09-22T14:59:22","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwei.webfactional.com\/?p=3499"},"modified":"2007-09-22T14:59:22","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T06:59:22","slug":"mattel_apologizes_to_china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/business\/mattel_apologizes_to_china.php","title":{"rendered":"Mattel apologizes to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"imgleft\"><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"mattel_logo_.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/www.laodanwei.org\/2007\/09\/22\/mattel_logo_.gif\" width=\"41\" height=\"63\" class=\"mt-image-left\" \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p>From a report on Candian TV&#8217;s website:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20070921\/toy_recall_070921\/20070921?hub=CTVNewsAt11\">Mattel says sorry to China about toy recalls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a surprising move, U.S. toy manufacturer Mattel apologized to China on Friday, taking responsibility for recent toy recalls and admitting they were due to &#8220;design flaws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese manufacturers of the toys were not to blame for the massive recalls, a senior Mattel executive said during talks in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority of those products that were recalled were the result of a design flaw in Mattel&#8217;s design, not through a manufacturing flaw in China&#8217;s manufacturers,&#8221; Debrowski said at a meeting in the office of Li Changjiang, chief of China&#8217;s product quality assurance agency.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>However, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mattel.com\/message_from_ceo.html\">apology from Mattel&#8217;s CEO Bob Eckert<\/a> to American parents on Mattel&#8217;s website makes no mention of any such design flaws.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel apologizes to China for design flaws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/business\/mattel_apologizes_to_china.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[1260,1261,1262,1263,1264],"class_list":["post-3499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-export","tag-mattel","tag-product-safety","tag-quality-control","tag-toys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laodanwei.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}