Every day, the federal government announces product recalls. These are items that companies thought would make money for them, but are later determined to be products that could strangle, poison, burn, lacerate or otherwise injure their customers. The recent discoveries of lead paint on a certain line of Thomas the Tank Engine toy trains and other common toys have focused attention on the factories in China and the inadequate oversight of import products.

But the April 10 recall announcement for 26,000 packages of FUNTASTIC “Hillbilly Teeth” (which are painted with toxic lead) doesn’t elicit much sympathy from me. Note the description: “The gums are brown and the teeth are yellow.” If you wear your ridicule for mountain people in your mouth, it seems a little brain damage might be justified.

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