As is being reported in CNN Toy company CEO kills self:
Zhang Shuhong, who co-owned Lee Der Industrial Company, killed himself at a warehouse over the weekend, days after China announced it had temporarily banned exports by the company, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
Lee Der made 967,000 toys recalled earlier this month by Mattel Inc. because they were made with paint containing excessive amounts of lead. The plastic preschool toys, sold under the Fisher-Price brand in the U.S., included the popular Big Bird, Elmo, Dora and Diego characters.
It was among the largest recalls in recent months involving Chinese products, which have come under fire globally for containing potentially dangerous high levels of chemicals and toxins.
The valid question is being raised though if it is possible for this to happen with one toy manufacturer, is it being repeated...
4 comments:
Our American CEO's could learn something important/valuable from Zhang Shuhong.
They used to call it HONOR.
Q. When making children's toys, toys that children mouth, just how much lead in the paint is excessive?
I'm kinda confused on that point; where does one draw the line?
Honor - would be nice to see that spread around more than it is... we don't really live in a place with corporate honor. People in some places feel beholden and responsible to their society, almost obligatory for their work to be good. Here, it's all about ME, and whether or not you can catch ME.
Now don't get all..."We suck and they don't" on us here. Somebody over there sold him the paint and I am quite sure he accepted it. Even if he didn't know...there was greed involved. Doesn't sound so "honorable" to me either way....
Hong Kong newspaper reported... Zhang was known as a good boss, his is the only company that provided free room and board for workers in the local manufacturing town.
The issue here was more than greed, it's ignorance. It's ignorance which started the toothpaste fiasco, it's ignorance that Zhang did not test his supplier, and it's ignorance that Mattel did not perform necessary precaution, and tests.
Everyone should learn from this mistake, not finger pointing. Life is too important to be wasted away.
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