Safer Toys Will Come, but Parents Can Act Now

BrittG | Aug 20, 2008 | 0 | Posted in Recommend It!

What you can do.

August 18, 2008 12:54 PM ET | Nancy Shute | US News & World Report

Good news for parents—last Thursday President Bush signed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, the biggest effort in the past 30 years to protect children from dangerous toys and products.

This comes after a horrendous 2007, when millions of children's toys were recalled for containing toxic amounts of lead, potentially lethal magnets, and other hazards.

Here's what the new law does:

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"Baby Einstein Yellow Blocks of Death" found at CPMC BabySteps Kick-Off!

BrittG | Jul 25, 2008 | 1 | Posted in Recommend It!

Excerpt from SF Dad's Blog!

"This past weekend, we went to a kids’ fair put on by CPMC BabySteps (some sort of San Francisco health/welfare/social networking site that a local hospital is trying to launch).

One of the interesting things that they were doing at the fair was offering to test kids toys for contaminants. A local businessman, Jack Hanson of HMC Analytical, was donating his time and (very expensive) equipment to help local parents determine whether or not any of their kids’ toys were toxic.

We happened to bring along a couple of SFBaby’s toys to the fair, so we submitted them for testing. Most were okay, but the testing device (which I think was some sort of InnovX Systems XRF tester) flagged a yellow Baby Einstein block that we had recently acquired secondhand."

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