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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 15:59:59 -0500
- From: "Derrick J. Brashear" <db74+@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Subject: In today's paper...
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- CALUMET, Pa. - A small Mt. Pleaasnt Township, Westmoreland
- County, factory that produces minature soldiers has emerged victorious
- in a battle to overturn a New York ban on the distribution and sale of
- its product.
- New York State Supreme Court Justice Edward Spain has lifted the ban
- on lead minature soldiers, ruling that the sale and distribution of the
- figurines did not constitute a health danger to the public.
- Spain's ruling clears the way for retailers to immediately resume
- selling the toy soldiers in New York.
- Russ Dunaway, owner of Old Glory Manufacturing Inc. located in the
- village of Calumet, is delighted with the decision.
- "Obviously, reason ruled," Dunaway said Saturday when he heard the
- news.
- Earlier last week, 12 employees of Old Glory sent depositions to be
- entered as evidence at a hearing in Albany, N.Y. In their statements,
- the employees attested to the safety of their product -- minature
- soldiers which contain about 60 percent tin and 40 percent lead.
- The Old Glory employees, who are tested for lead levels every six
- months, also sent copies of blood tests taken at an area hospital.
- "We never have high lead, never," Dunaway said.
- The company was challenging an order issued Dec. 2 by New York Health
- Commissioner Dr. Mark R. Chassin, who banned the sale of minature toy
- soldiers containing lead.
- Chassin claimed the replicas could cause lead poisoning in children.
- However, Chassin's department admitted that none of the thousands of
- lead poisoning cases it handles annually has ever been linked to
- minature soldiers.
- The Mt. Pleasant Township company can manufacture about 20,000
- figures a day, sculpted in vivid detail. The unfinished figures are then
- sent to hobby shops to be sold to collectors who hand paint and decorate
- them.
- Old Glory is currently finalizing a new line of figures from the
- French and Indian War, based on the movie, "Last of the Mohicans."
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