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Painfully vulnerable: UnderArmour recalls athletic cups

Posted Apr 30th 2009 10:40AM by Alex Salkever (RSS feed)
Filed under: Under Armour'A' (UA)

Athletic apparel maker Under Armour (NASDAQ: UA) has been heroic of late, with strong earnings on its increasingly ubiquitous polyester tough-guy sports apparel, and sneakers that defied the crushing consumer spending slowdown.

But even tough products can crack. Apparently that was the fault the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission found with Under Armour's athletic cups when it issued a recall for over 200,000 protective cups bearing Under Armour's logo. Manufactured in China, the cups could shatter if hit, potentially resulting in serious injuries to cup-wearer.

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Fisher-Price to recall one million toys made in China

Posted Aug 2nd 2007 8:15AM by Julie Tilsner (RSS feed)
Filed under: International Markets, Bad News, Consumer Experience, China, Scandals, Mattel, Inc (MAT)

Maybe it's time to look under your kids' beds.

Fisher-Price, a division of toy-maker Mattel, Inc. (NYSE: MAT), is recalling nearly one million plastic pre-school toys because of unsafe levels of lead paint. The toys were painted by a Chinese vendor with whom the company has a long association.

The recall, the second-largest this year involving toys, involves 83 different products made from April 19 through July 6. Toy characters parents (and their pre-school children) will certainly recognize include Elmo, Dora the Explorer, and her pal Diego.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has a full list of the recalled toys here.

Gallery: Mattel toy recall