Productions
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6 November 2007
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SF 10 vor 10
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Toxic Toys |
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More than 20 million toys made in China have been recalled worldwide over the past four months because of potentially dangerous levels of lead or choking hazards due to small magnets. Some of these toys were manufactured using paints from unauthorized suppliers, to which the paints had toxic levels of lead. Swiss correspondent Christoph Nufer checks out how the shipments of containers filled with toys for the rest of Europe are controlled in the Rotterdam harbor. The Dutch food and product safety Authority (VWA) and the Dutch customs make risk analyses to decide which container needs to be inspected. Often the inspection happens at importers inside the country, to prevent the constant flow of containers in the harbor is frustrated. Papers and toys are checked and samples are taken and tested in the VWA labs.
Activities: research and set up, plan filming; direction and interview.