Customs & Border Protection Warns Shoppers To Be Diligent While Shopping For Toys Online This Holiday Season

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Officials privation to punctual consumers to beryllium other diligent portion buying online this vacation play aft Baltimore Customs and Border Protection officers seized a shipment of toys coated successful unsafe levels of lead, cadmium and barium.

Officials said that the toys were initially inspected connected July 16 and included 7 boxes with 295 packages from China. The contents included Lagori 7 Stones, a fashionable children’s crippled successful India.

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The shipment was detained connected Aug. 24 and 9 samples were sent to the laboratory for analysis. Lab results revealed that the toys were coated successful lead, cadmium and barium that exceeded harmless levels for user products. As a result, the remaining shipment was besides seized connected Oct. 4.

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Officials said the toys were destined to an code successful Fairfax County, Virginia.

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“The wellness and information of our nation’s children remains a precedence interest for Customs and Border Protection, CPSC and each of our user information partners,” said Adam Rottman, CBP’s Area Port Director for the Area Port of Baltimore. “We anticipation that seizures similar this helps to rise user consciousness astir the precise existent threats posed by seemingly harmless children’s toys and we impulse consumers to behaviour their owed diligence erstwhile purchasing vacation gifts online this year.”

CBS Baltimore Staff