Buy Safe Products, Avoid Recalls!
When you shop for toys for children, it is necessary to know which of the toys that you are considering are safe to buy for your children and which ones are not safe. Many toys on the shelves have been recalled but the stores continue to shelf them. If you are not up to date with the toy recall list, then you could buy some nice toys that your children will love but these toys might have some toxic, harmful materials. You need to be careful when purchasing toddlers toys or toys for babies especially because a tiny amount of toxic substance in toys can harm them.
It is a disturbing fact that dangerous toys continue to be sold in stores across the country, despite new laws that are put in place to protect children from hazardous toys. Toy safety is an important issue that parents worry about daily. Although the majority of the toys on store shelves are actually safe, there continues to be a substantial amount of toys that pose a range of safety hazards to small children. As a result, parents and other child-care providers need to exercise care in order to avoid toy-related deaths and injuries. With more information, the scope of unsafe toys has been widened to include previously considered to be safe toys such as those labeled as phthalate-free. Bear in mind that even some products labeled phthalate-free can contain the dangerous chemical.
Although toy manufacturers should quickly recall products that are considered unsafe and give parents all the information they need so that they will be able to purchase safe toys for their children, some of them do not. You will no doubt have heard of many toy recalls on TV but there are plenty more toy recalls that are not published. As a result, parents do not know that they are unsafe to use or buy. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency whose goal is to keep toys and other products safe, have published alerts and information on toy safety but there are still tons of manufacturers that are ignoring Congress and continue to sell toys laden with toxic materials such as phthalates. The Consumer Product Safety Commission cannot do much about existing toys that are already out on the shelves.
If you suspect you have a toxic, toxic and dangerous toy or any product that is unsafe, you need report the incident to the CPSC by calling a toll-free Consumer Hotline at 800-638-2772 (TTY 800-638-8270).