From the washingtonpost.com's
The Checkout:
(There) is a recall of 3,000 "Newport" cribs and 6,000 matching furniture pieces made by Munire Furniture of Piscataway, N.J. for having
lead paint in excess of federal limits.
The paint in question was a red paint underneath a darker top coating--still accessible of course, especially by teething babes and toddlers who like to gnaw on the rails.
The cribs cost about $600 a pop and the matching furniture had price tags between $700 to $1000. They were sold between April 2006 and November 2008 in specialty children's furniture stores.
The company says it has received one report of a child having ingested lead and being diagnosed with lead poisoning.
What I found interesting is that the Munire site contains the following statement:
You can have peace of mind that all Muniré products are coated with finishes that are in compliance with Federal Regulation 16CFR1303 for lead content and have been certified as such by Intertek, a testing laboratory recognized by both the American Society for Testing and Materials and the Consumer Products Safety Commission. In addition, we meet or exceed every federal safety standard and are approved by the Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association (JPMA).
So how did they all miss the lead paint, then? I'd be curious to know how many samples were tested, how those samples were chosen, and more about who wielded the lead paint brush.