Protect the kids on your shopping list from unsafe toys
This season when you are out shopping for toys for your children, your nephews, nieces or grandchildren, make sure they are safe.
Download our 24th annual Toy Safety report, Trouble in Toyland, to find out which dangerous toys to avoid.
Make smart toy purchases by visiting www.ToySafety.mobi from your smart phone or home computer to check on toy hazards and report dangerous toys while you shop.
Please use the form linked here to help us spread the word. The biggest shopping day of the year is right around the corner, and no one wants to buy a toy that could harm a loved one.
We're coming up on the biggest shopping day of the year. But are the toys we're buying for our children, nephews, nieces and grandchildren safe?
We're putting the tools in your hands so you can shop safe. This week, PIRGIM released our Trouble in Toyland report, to evaluate which toys are safe -- and which aren't.
Along with our report, we are launching a new interactive Web site. It works on your smart phone, so you can check a toy's safety or report hazardous toys while you shop.
Check our report and use our smart phone application to learn more about which toys are safe.
It seems obvious: No toy intended for children should be toxic. But our annual toy safety report shows compliance with the new PIRGIM-backed safety standards is a mixed bag.
Beefed up standards and stronger enforcement have made a difference, but 82,000 young children still went to the emergency room last year with toy related injuries. Amazingly, the toy industry keeps hammering away in Washington that the law is too restrictive and has "unintended" consequences.
As the recent recall of 2.1 million cribs shows us, there's nothing "unintended" about protecting kids.
Click here to learn more. And share this e-mail with everyone else you know who may be buying toys for children.
Last year, you helped us push a bill through Congress to get dangerous toys out of stores and out of the hands of children. A cornerstone of the new law is its tough new limits on toxic lead and phthalates in children's products. We've seen progress this year as a result of a tougher, stronger Consumer Product Safety Commission. But our researchers still found products that violate these limits, so we're going to keep calling on the CPSC to vigorously enforce these bans.
You and your family and friends can help us again this season by joining our toy safety network and reporting unsafe toys to the CPSC using your smart phone. Or click below to sign up for toy safety updates as we learn about new hazards that might be in your local toy store.
http://www.PIRGIM.org/action/toy-safety?id4=es
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