Four days before Christmas, Planet Toys Inc. wants stores to remove the company’s CSI Fingerprint Examination Kit from their shelves after some tests had revealed samples of asbestos included in the kits.
The New York toy manufacturer sent a “stop sale” notice Friday, according to a statement on the company’s Web site saying an investigation is under way into whether the kits pose a health threat to anyone using them.
The announcement comes about three weeks after the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit advocacy group, called on stores to remove the toys from their shelves. Lab studies from the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization showed asbestos in some samples of the kit’s fingerprint dust.
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