RECALL: Toy Wooden Block and Train Sets Due to Violation of Lead Paint Standard


The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with First Learning Company Ltd about 15,000 Mass Big Wooden Blocks and Jumbo Wooden Train Sets because Surface paint on some pieces of the toys contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard.

The Big Wooden Blocks contain 30 or 60 colorful block pieces in 11 geometric shapes. The Jumbo Wooden Train Sets contain 70 wooden pieces including trees, stop and railroad crossing signs, a red wooden engine and green train cars. The following style numbers and UPC numbers are printed on the packaging of the toys.

Parents are being asked to take the recalled toys away from children and return the toys to any Christmas Tree Shop to receive a refund.

You can contact Christmas Tree Shops at (888) 287-3232 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, or visit the firm’s Web site at www.christmastreeshops.com


Marc Quinns ‘Evolution’ Exhibition


The While Cube Gallery in London is currently hosting Marc Quinn’s ‘Evolution’ Exhibition.

The artist looks at pregnancy from the inside with nine large sculptures depicting the development of a fetus from 22 days to just before birth.

They have been carved in a pink marble whose mottling conveys the fine veins below the growing child’s skin.
The embryo works continue Quinn’s fascination with issues of genetics and DNA manipulation and have been developed from images in medical textbooks and scans of the 43-year-old artist’s own two children, aged six and two.

The show runs until 23 February.

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PHOTOCREDIT:ALEXLENTATI

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