Former Toy Importers Plead Guilty to Selling Hazardous Toys

A New York couple pled guilty last week to importing children's toys that violated the Consumer Product Safety Act (CPSA) and contained copyright infringing images.

Chenglan Hu, 52, and Hua Fei Zhang, 53, of Bayside, N.Y., pled guilty to violating the CPSA by importing toys that contained unsafe lead and phthalates levels, small parts that presented choking, aspiration or ingestion risks, easily accessible battery compartments and other potential hazards. Additionally, they confessed to importing toys with counterfeit trademarks of popular characters, such as Winnie the Pooh, Dora the Explorer and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, as well as those from movies, including “Cars,” “Toy Story” and “High School Musical.”