Mattel’s “Higher Safety Standards”

Pure awesome at work in the latest Ask Mattel at Poe’s site. One question is answered with:

Mattel has much different price structures compared to other consumer good companies and much higher safety standards compared to other toy companies.

As recently as last fall we looked at Mattel’s safety standards in action (post here) when they recalled millions of toys . . . again. I find it amusing that Mattel would toss out “higher safety standards” as part of the reasoning behind their product prices. I mean, Mattel likely recalls lots of toys because they make a hell of a lot of toys, but between their various recalls over the years and their special deal with the CPSIA (mentioned here) I don’t think that using “higher safety standards” as an answer to anything is a good idea.