Reply #9: Yes and no. Lead use is not regulated in China

[Lone_Star_Dem]

If one country is to purchase goods from a country without the same regulations that they hold, there should be agreements of quality and rigorous testing on the products received to assure that the agreements are being upheld.

At some point these safeguards have not been upheld as they should have been. If they ever really were, which I don't know.

Some blame the failure on the lack of testing, others on China's lack of concern for our standards, and yet others on Americans desire for such massive amounts of cheap goods.

If I were pressed I say the blame lay with all three but not in equal amounts.