Sierra Club Tells Dollar General and Target to Make Change in China
With the last few months of quality issues focused on individual products: pet food, seafood, toys, tires, etc. However, it appears that the fight has been taken to another level as the Sierra Club has issued a statement that they will hold Target and Dollar General (a KKR holding) accountable for products they have found to have high lead quanities.
According to Reuters:
The Sierra Club has notified 10 U.S. companies that imported or distributed toys, children’s jewelry and other products from China containing potentially hazardous levels of lead that it will sue after 60 days if the firms don’t file reports with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Why this is important is that this press release, and potential lawsuit, seems to be the first real effort to treat the U.S. firm as the primary bearer of responsibility in their distribution of unsafe goods (This is not Dollar General’s first exposure to products with lead paint issues). In all other cases I have seen, it was the Chinese suppliers who took the brunt of the blame.
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