I don't think anybody is minimizing the danger of lead to children. By the way, unless there have been further developments since yesterday, the child who died was killed by another problem entirely--not lead--but the use of small magnets in toys these days. It happened to Kenny Sweet a toddler "who died in 2005 after swallowing several magnetic bearings in a building set produced for the Magnetix brandof MEGA Brands of Montreal" (WSJ 15 Aug 2007).

"In 2006, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled about 3.8 million building sets that had been sold for nearly three years at locations that included big-name retailers like WalMart, Target and ToysRUs."--WSJ 15 Aug.

In China itself, the problem of lead is extremely severe--in a survey in 2004, 34% of young children were found to have unsafe amounts of lead (again, WSJ). Supposedly the situation has improved lately.