世界十大产品召回案

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Toyota

has

said

it

will

recall

more

than

9

million

cars

to

fix

faulty

gas

pedals

and

floor

mats

that

can

cause

unintended

acceleration.

TIME

recaps

10 of the largest

—

and most disquieting

—

recalls to date

丰田宣布将会召回至少

900

万辆车，

对车辆出现问题的油门踏板和可能会无意识

导致加速的地毯进行 修理。

《时代》总结了迄今为止十项最大规模也是最让人懊

恼的 召回。

Toyota's Faulty Pedals

Toyota

is

having

problems.

On

Jan.

21

the

world's

largest

automaker

issued

a recall

—

its second in three months

—

on million vehicles sold in

the U.S. and Europe to fix faulty gas pedals that have a tendency to get

stuck, causing unintended acceleration. This is on top of a November

recall

of million

cars

(and

counting)

believed

to

have

ill-fitting

floor

mats that have a tendency to trap pedals. In total, more than 9 million

Toyota cars worldwide have been pulled back for pedal-related flaws.

That's a lot of cars. In fact, it's nearly the same amount as the total

number

vehicles

all

carmakers

sold

in

the

U.S.

in

2009.

The

House

Oversight

and

Government

Reform

Committee

announced

plans

to

investigate

the

recall,

and whether the Japanese-based automaker needlessly put the public at

risk.

Honda

drivers

have

no

room

to

gloat:

646,000

Honda

Fits,

Jazzes

and

Cities

(including 140,000 cars sold in the U.S.) have been recalled to fix a

faulty window switch known to accidentally catch fire.

丰田宣 布将会召回至少

900

万辆车，

对车辆 出现问题的油门踏板和可能会无意识

导致加速的地毯进行修理。

《时代》总结了迄今为止十项最大规模也是最让人懊

恼的召回。

Cribs Recalled After Infant Death

More than 400,000 drop-side cribs made by Simplicity were recalled July

2

after

an

8-month-old

child

in

Houston

suffocated.

The

Chinese-made

cribs

had a detachable side

that easily broke,

creating a gap

between the side

of

the

crib

and

the

mattress

where

a

child

could

potentially

become

trapped

and suffocate. It wasn't Simplicity's first snafu with the cribs. In

September 2008, the company recalled 600,000 cribs of the same type; in

2007

a

million

older- model

cribs

were

recalled

after

two

children

became

trapped and suffocated. In an interview on The Early Show, Consumer

Product

Safety

Commission

chairman

Inez

Tenenbaum

said,

have

recalled

2

million

of

these

in

the

past

few

years

because

the

company

would

change

the hardware, but it never worked.

婴儿床在出现幼儿死亡之后被召回

超 过

40

万张由

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公司生产的下拉式围栏婴儿床在

6

月

2

号一位在休斯

顿的幼儿窒息而死后被召回 。

这种中国制造的婴儿床有一可拆开的边非常容易损

坏，

会在车的边缘和床垫之间产生缝隙，

而这缝隙可能卡住孩子并有窒息的 危险。

这并不是

Simplicity

第一次因为婴儿床而被推上风口浪尖了。

早在

2008

年的

9

月公司召回了

6 0

万张同款婴儿床；

而

2007

年有

100

张老款婴儿床因为两个儿童

被卡住并窒息而宣布召回。在访谈节目《

The

Early

Show

》中，消费者产 品安全

委员会主席

Inez Tenenbaum

说道：“我们在过去的几年因为公司希望会对床的

硬件进行更换已经召回了< /p>

200

万张婴儿床，但却从没起到什么作用。”

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China's Product-Safety Recalls

In

2008,

China's

largest

provider

of

milk

powder

recalled

700

tons

of

baby

formula after one child died and more than 50 others developed kidney

problems. Melamine, a chemical used in the making of plastic, was found

in

the

baby

formula;

it

later

emerged

that

unscrupulous

manufacturers

had

been adding it to

food products

to

cheaply boost protein

values. Two men

were

eventually

sentenced

to

death

for

their

role

in

the

scam.

The

revelations

only

further

damaged

China's

reputation

in

production.

Melamine had been a problem a year earlier, in March 2007, when the FDA

recalled more than 60 million cans of cat and dog food after the death

of

14

pets.

In

addition

to

spoiling

food,

Chinese-made

toys

were

recalled

later

in

2007;

Mattel

took

several

of

its

Barbie

and

Polly

Pocket

products

off the shelves because of concerns over toxic lead paint and hazardous

magnet parts.

中国食品安全召回事件

2008

年，

中国最大的奶粉生产商在一名儿童死亡并且发现超过

个儿童发展成

肾结石后宣布召回

700

吨儿童配方奶粉。

三聚氰胺，

一种用于制造塑料的化学添

加剂，

在这种儿童配方奶粉 中被发现了。

调查发现无良的制造商为了能廉价达到

蛋白含量标 准而将三聚氰胺添加到奶粉中。

最终二人因为他们欺诈行为而被判死

刑。这件事情的曝光影响了中国未来在制造业的声誉。三聚氰胺曾经在

2007

年

3

月因为

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只宠物的死亡而被美国食品药物监督局召回了

600

万罐。除了中国

的问题食品，中国制造的玩具也曾在

2007

年后半年被召回。美国玩具制造商

Mattel

因为人们对有毒铅涂料和含有危险磁部件有所担忧而让部分芭比娃娃和

波利口袋下架。

One Bad Bump ...

The Ford Pinto was a famously bad automobile, but worse still might be

Ford's

handling

of

the

safety

concerns

surrounding

the

'70s-era

subcompact.

Before

the

car

ever

reached

the

market,

concerns

emerged

that

a rear-end collision might cause

the Pinto

to blow up

—

the

positioning

of

the

fuel

tank

sparked

fears

it

could

be

punctured

in

a

crash

and

cause

a fire or an explosion. But instead of fixing the Pinto's design, Ford,

in

a

bit

of

morbid

calculus,

determined

it

would

be

cheaper

to

settle

any

lawsuits resulting from the Pinto's flaws. After several lawsuits and

criminal charges (Ford was eventually found not guilty), the automaker

recalled million Pintos in 1978, retrofitting the fuel-tank assembly

with

additional

protections

to

prevent

the

Pinto

from

going

up

in

flames.

Too bad the same couldn't be done for the car's reputation. In 1981 the

Pinto was retired for good.