Seven toys recalled due to toxic barium

Despite assurances from Ottawa that concerned parents would start seeing fewer toy recalls, the number of children's products pulled from shelves increased by about 40 per cent in 2008, with a potentially toxic and previously undetected threat – barium – tainting seven of those toys.

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