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Feb 9, 2010 3:39 pm US/Pacific

Calif. Asks Target To Pull Valentine Bears

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The California attorney general is asking Target Corp. to pull its Valentine's Day "Message Bears" from shelves over concerns about lead in the toys.

Attorney General Jerry Brown said in a letter Monday that testing revealed lead levels that violate federal law.

Target spokeswoman Beth Hanson says the Minneapolis-based company will stop selling the bears, which were made in China, while it investigates.

Hanson said Target's initial investigation indicated the bears "had compliant testing results" when the toys shipped.

The products were identified as a pink stuffed bear with "XOXO" across its chest and a brown stuffed bear with "I Love U" across its chest, with the word "love" represented by a heart.

Brown's letter says an investigator for the Center for Environmental Health, a nonprofit watchdog group, bought the toys at stores in California.