No need to say much. We just wanted to help spread the word about the new 2009 U.S. Pirg report on Toy Safety. Below is the reprint from the U.S. Pirg site so you can read all the information and navigate around the site yourself. All Child’s Play is extremely concerned about Toy Safety and strives to help keep all parents aware of toys to avoid this Christmas.
Toy Safety
What’s New
24th Trouble in Toyland report
Toys should bring kids joy, but sometimes they bring injury, serious harm, or even death. This holiday season, as we have for the past 23 years, U.S. PIRG is working to reduce the number of injuries and tragedies caused by dangerous toys.
The 24th annual Trouble in Toyland survey focuses on three categories of toy hazards:
• toys that may pose choking hazards,
• toys that are excessively loud, and
• toys that contain the toxic chemicals lead and phthalates.
U.S. PIRG also has a new interactive smart phone website – http://www.toysafety.mobi – to help parents and other toy-shoppers avoid common hazards and report potential dangers they find on toy store shelves, right from their mobile phones or home computers.
Sign up for toy safety alerts, and spread the word to others by clicking here.
Check out the interactive toy tool and report potentially dangerous toys here.
Also, if you suspect you have a toxic or otherwise dangerous toy or any unsafe product (coffeemaker, lawn mower, etc.), you can report it to the CPSC either online at http://www.cpsc.gov/talk.html or over the phone at Toll-free Consumer Hotline: 800-638-2772 (TTY 800-638-8270). Send a copy of your report to us at info@uspirg.org.
Overview
While most toys on store shelves are safe, we continue to find toys that pose a range of safety hazards to small children. As a result, parents and other child-care providers need to remain vigilant in order to prevent toy-related deaths and injuries.
Recently, U.S. PIRG broadened the scope of unsafe toys to include toys labeled as phthalate-free. Our analysis last year shows that even some products labeled phthalate-free contain the dangerous chemical.
Toy manufacturers should act swiftly to recall unsafe products and give parents the information they need to allow them to purchase safe toys for their children. U.S. PIRG and our allies have prompted recalls or regulatory action on over 100 toys.
The Public Interest Research Groups work to protect our kids all year round. This lunch bag was found to contain illegal levels of two phthalates, chemicals that can cause premature birth, reproductive defects and early onset puberty for young girls. Read more in the study from IllinoisPIRG.
U.S. PIRG has also launched a new, interactive mobile phone tool and website. This simple interactive tool allows shoppers to check on possible hazards while at the store, or before they go shopping, as well as report hazards they find.
Ready…Set…Go! No, you can’t bet any money on this mismatch! It’s a known fact that no matter who the challenger, mom/dad/brother/sister/grandma/grandpa, the toys are always going to win. However, you can prepare for the fight with the right equipment.
We’ll all be soon off to the races against a stronger challenger when new lightweights and heavyweights show up under the Christmas tree on December 25th. Ho…Ho…Ho…Ho…Oh….Hoooold on! You haven’t even gotten the last group under control and now they’re bringing in reinforcements?
You wouldn’t think these guys would be that hard to tackle and take down, yet they have their way of shuffling and scrambling and somehow managing to sneak their through all obstacles and punches we throw at them. They seem to be uncontrollable and unstoppable.
Group Together And Get Organized
The only way to fight back is to practice, challenge and most importantly be prepared to “take them out”! If you don’t organize against them you’ll never win and they’ll be taking over the “compound” known as your home. You’ll be finding them in your toilet, your bed (and the dog’s bed), the bathroom sink while you’re brushing your teeth, the washer and dryer and just about any other space that you’d prefer not to find them.
Then there’s the occasional stepping on and tripping over some of them (those darn legos) and causing bodily harm, especially when they’re hiding on the stairs. This all results in inhibitting you from performing your normal household duties of the day (which usually don’t all get done anyway..especially since there are always so many toys in your way) .
Fight back now moms and dads, grandmas and grandpas, aunts and uncles! Get these little innocent things, that make your children giggle and smile, under control and well behaved. Put them in their place with…da..ta..ta..ta..ta …TOY ORGANIZERS!
Yes, bring out the big guns ! The toy boxes, toy bins, toy lockers and toy storage whatever and put those little guys back in their place to bring peace and harmony back into your home.
Here’s how we ganged up against the toy rebels in our home to control our free-ranging toys (watch and see how it’s done)!
Let us know how you have united against the toys (or the kids if that’s the case) to regain your territory! We’d love to hear your solutions to the toys taking over every room in the house.
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