Commerce Divisions Team Up to Repair and Donate Toys to Makethe Holiday Season Brighter for Kids

 

623 toys to be donated

 

 

Who:        Director of Commerce Gary Suhadolnik, Superintendent of the Division of Industrial Compliance (DIC) David Williamson and employees of DIC, the State Fire Marshal’s office and the Division of Liquor Control.

 

What:       Photo opportunity in conjunction with toy repair.

 

When:      Monday, December 2, 2002, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

 

Where:    Ohio Department of Commerce

                 Division of Industrial Compliance

                 6606 Tussing Road, Reynoldsburg

                

Notes:      Thanks to an innovative holiday program that began 16 years ago, needy children in central Ohio will be recipients of donated toys. Each year, hundreds of stuffed animals are cut open at an Ohio Department of Commerce laboratory, sacrificed for the safety of Ohio consumers. Commerce’s Bedding and Upholstered Furniture section inspects filler material inside representative samples of stuffed toys sold statewide, to ensure the toys are safe and accurately labeled. The toys are sent by the manufacturers to the sate laboratory in Cambridge, where they are cut open by lab technicians. The technicians perform chemical and microscopic tests on hundreds of different types of fillers used in toys produced by manufacturers from around the world.

 

                 Instead of being disposed of, the toys are set aside until the holiday season, when they are “rescued” by state employees.

 

                 EMPLOYEES WILL BE DONATING THEIR LUNCH HOUR AT THE EVENT TO REPAIR THE STUFFED TOYS.

 

 

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