Remember the huge recalls of Mattel toys in the recent past? Mattel has finally issued an apology, the bulk of which is directed to China. Via Breitbart comes this story from FT.com.

Mattel, the world’s largest toy maker, has issued a humiliating apology to China for damaging the country’s reputation, saying that millions of product recalls that the company has made in recent months resulted from design flaws, not poor Chinese manufacturing standards.

“Our reputation has been damaged lately by these recalls,” Thomas Debrowski, Mattel’s executive vice president of worldwide operations, told the head of China’s quality control agency, Li Changjiang, in Beijing, according to news agency reports.

”Mattel takes full responsibility for these recalls and apologises personally to you, the Chinese people and all of our customers who received the toys.”

It’s nice to see they are accepting responsibility for their “mistakes.” Far too little, far too late.