Phthalates Not Found in GoodGuide Tests of Zhu Zhu Pets (PR)

Dear Members of the Press:

The Zhu Zhu Pets story has received a lot of media attention today. We would like to clarify that GoodGuide did NOT find phthalates in its tests of Zhu Zhu pets. GoodGuide also issued the following correction and posted a comment to its blog: 
 
http://blog.goodguide.com/2009/12/7/goodguide-clarifies-our-toy-testing-methodology
 
 
Dec 07, 2009 14:24 ET
GoodGuide Issues Correction About Its Toy Testing Methodology

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - December 7, 2009) - In a press release we issued on Saturday, December 5th, we published the results of our testing of chemical levels in toys and stated that certain toys we tested had antimony and chromium levels that exceed federal standards. Since issuing our release, we have learned that the testing methodology used in the federal standards (a soluble method) is different than the methodology we used in our testing (a surface-based method). Accordingly, while we accurately reported the chemical levels in the toys that we measured using our testing method, we should not have compared our results to federal standards. We regret this error.
 
###
 
Teresa Hsu
Account Supervisor
Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide
1111 19th Street, NW
10th Floor
Washington, DC 20036
D: 202-729-4077
teresa.hsu@ogilvypr.com