Sarge Recalled

“FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 14, 2007

Release #07-270 Firm's Recall Hotline: (800) 916-4997
CPSC Recall Hotline: (800) 638-2772
CPSC Media Contact: (301) 504-7908

Mattel Recalls “Sarge” Die Cast Toy Cars Due To Violation of Lead Safety Standard


Mattel Recalls “Sarge” Die Cast Toy Cars Due To Violation of Lead Safety Standard

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately.
Name of Product: “Sarge” die cast toy cars

Units: About 253,000

Importer: Mattel Inc., of El Segundo, Calif.

Hazard: Surface paints on the toys could contain lead levels in excess of federal standards. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects.

Incidents/Injuries: None reported.

Description: The recall involves die cast “Sarge” 2 ½ inch toy cars. The toy looks like a military jeep and measures about 2 ½ inches long by 1 inch high by 1 inch wide. The recalled toy has the markings “7EA” and “China” on the bottom. The “Sarge” toy car is sold alone or in a package of two, and may have the product number M1253 (for single cars) and K5925 (for cars sold as a set) printed on the packaging. The cars marked “Thailand” are not included in this recall.

Sold at: Retail stores nationwide from May 2007 through August 2007 for between $7 and $20 (depending on whether they were sold individually or in sets).

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the recalled toys away from children and contact Mattel. Consumers will need to return the product to receive a replacement toy.”

“I remember a time when eating lead based paint was part of growing up. And we liked it.”

“yeah. I think it's part of that vast left wing conspiracy trying to deny our rights to eat lead! Enough of the mommy state inventing suppossed hazerds.

I ates leeds all time and i's ohkay.”

“Slow day, tiltypoo?”

“Tilt, I almost posted this, with the same thread title. Too funny.”

“My son has other "Cars" but not Sarge. Thank God!!”

“Someone flip Sarge over and check his label. I'm guessing he's got "Made in the USA" stamped on the bottom of one foot.”

““I remember a time when eating lead based paint was part of growing up. And we liked it.” - lumberzac



Funny... I don't remember that.

or anything else from the lead paint days.

ATTENTION! DO NOT EAT THE BROWN PAINT!”

“I remember playing with mercury.”

“What do you think I used to help wash the paint chips down with?”

“I started off on door jam peel and soon I hit the harder stuffff...”

“I just played pinball with the numerous beads that would scatter after we dropped a thermometer.”

“I've got about 500 pounds of mercury in storage, if anybody wants to play with some.”

“It's against my religion to pass up a straight line like that!

They let us play with mercury a little in the lab in high school, but made sure we washed thoroughly afterward.  I wonder how much was absorbed through the skin?”

“Less than what you used to get in a polio shot?”

“Quoted from a web site:

How toxic is elemental mercury?
Of all the forms of mercury, elemental mercury is the most commonly swallowed form of mercury, usually from a broken thermometer. Fortunately, elemental mercury from a thermometer is not absorbed from the stomach and will not cause any poisoning in a healthy person. In a healthy person, the slippery swallowed mercury will roll into the stomach, out in to the bowels and will be quickly eliminated without causing any symptoms. A person with severe inflammatory bowel disease or those with a fistula (hole or opening) in their gut may have problems with mercury if it is not all cleared out, resulting in prolonged exposure. Handling liquid mercury for a very short period of time usually does not result in any problems. An allergic rash is possible, though. Mercury is not well absorbed across the skin so skin contact is not likely to cause mercury poisoning, especially with a brief one-time exposure. Even if a person has cuts in their skin, mercury is too heavy to be contained by a cut. Merely washing the wound well will wash the mercury out of the wound.”

“define "very short" and "usually". Link?”

“Jeez, what does 500 lbs of mercury look like?”

“Since Ingestion is the way Lead damages you.....Sorry Tilt....so you must be worried you might want to lick or suck on a "Sarge Item" if it got close to you?



UM Sarge...lets just put this in our information we will keep for the future but not let anyone know we have ...file.”

““Jeez, what does 500 lbs of mercury look like?”
Tilt
12:24:34 PM
8/14/07

How about the terminator from Judgement Day?”

“Sorry Tilt....so you must be worried you might want to lick or suck on a "Sarge Item" if it got close to you?

UM Sarge...lets just put this in our information we will keep for the future but not let anyone know we have ...file.


That reminds me - how is your sciatic nerve?”

“bear: http://www.calpoison.org/public/mercury.html”

“Makes you wonder what they do down at the PHA all day.”

“Thanks tech. Do you think Cali poison control is written for short, one time exposures?

MSDS:
SKIN ABSORPTION: Skin absorption is a significant route of potential over-exposure to Mercury. Currently, no quantitative
estimates of the rate of penetration are available. Symptoms of such over-exposure would include redness and irritation of
the contaminated area, as well as the development of symptoms described for “Inhalation”.

http://www.bethlehemapparatus.com/Hg_MSDS.pdf

Now what's this thread about, again? LOL!”

“You know better than to use a word like 'penetration' with THIS crowd....”

“True, tilt. It might make it onto the out-of-context-quotes thread.


Ooops, it did.


bear - I don't know. Sure seems to be at odds with the MSDS info you posted.”

“does the sarge doll look like Marylin Manson?

”

“we have a couple of sarge toys, i offered to my husband this afternoon. i mentioned that chewing on them would help him de-stress. he didn't buy it. i'll have to think of something else.”

“Good gravy don't do that! Have you ever seen the effects of eating lead paint? It's not even funny to joke about such a thing.”

“God Bless the sanctity of marriage.”

“Sarge.....getting better...sorta, I can sleep at night..so far no pain meds other than aspirin.

BM...you don't have a dog in that fight ...freaking stay out of it.”

“BM...you don't have a dog in that fight ...freaking stay out of it.”
XL400236
8:18:28 AM
8/15/07

You're telling me to stay out of something on this forum, xl? To keep my opinion to myself?”

“LOLs”

“XL400236: fire investigator, government "worker", defender of all things republican, part time marriage counselor. next up: sainthood”

“He's skipping that; going straight to Christ.”

“you don't find my joke amusing Nigal?”

“Vile must be in a bad mood today I hear the buzzing of his troll....”

“When I saw the thread title I thought maybe the old boy had kicked the bucket again.

Our dear Sarge recalled as a fine example of.........................
last edited: 8/15/07 1:44:41 PM”

“.... or maybe Uncle Sugar needed him to straighten out that mess in Mesopotamia(?)”

““you don't find my joke amusing Nigal?”

Did you check my link? Of course I found it funny! LOL!”

“Nigal I thought it was pretty good too....but then Humor is never a strong point with "that Crowd" (LOL)”

“Awe, Pammy isn't that crowd. She's a crowd unto herself. :)”

“i tried to but it wouldn't come up. i was worried you had been offended, or worse, thought that i was actually serious!”

“Out of context quote alert #456,234,81.”

“Yep!”