In response to the recall issues and a discussion about them, my friend Darrin Wilkey helped my put everything into perspective. Darrin wrote:Sure China

I'll be speaking at the China Sourcing Fair seminar about buying in China, specifically on evaluating suppliers in China, in October. The forum

Every manufacture or buyer will, at some point, have to deal with quality fade of some type. But there are two types of quality fade.

With all the recent news about the Mattel problems and the resulting suicide I found it interesting what the Chinese were saying about the issue.