OTTAWA, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Most recalls of toys made
in China are due to design errors, not manufacturing problems, Canadian business
professor Hari Bapuji said Sunday.
"We should be asking the toy makers: 'Are you guys
learning from the errors that you are making? What are your systems to test?
What are your systems to make sure that an error doesn't get repeated in the
future?'" he said in an interview with Canadian Television.
Bapuji, professor of University of Manitoba and
University of Western Ontario international business professor Paul W. Beamish
jointly drew out a report on toy recalls, which is to be published by the Asia
Pacific Foundation of Canada.
The latest report gave a close analysis on the
reasons of Chinese-made toy recalls by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission from 1988 to August 2007.
They found that of the 550 toy recalls since 1988,
76.4 percent were the problems that could be attributed to design flaws while
only about 10 percent were attributable to manufacturing defects.
The report pointed out that when Mattel Inc. recalled
20 million toys this past August, 80 percent of the toys were pulled because
they contained small magnets, which is a design flaw.
