Chinese toys top EU recall statistics

CHINESE-made toys accounted for the majority of dangerous goods discovered and taken off the market in the EU last year.

There was an increase of 53% in the number of unsafe goods reported throughout the EU while the figure for Ireland more than doubled compared with 2006, statistics have shown.

This follows recalls of 20 million toys because of unsafe magnets and other problems with some of the world’s most popular toys such as Barbie dolls and alerts because of dangerous chemicals found in toothpaste.