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Toxics, hearing loss threats, and choking hazards, oh my
What should parents watch out for when shopping for presents this holiday season? Find out more at CALPIRG’s new smart phone toy safety site: www.toysafety.mobi Today CALPIRG released our 24th Annual Trouble in Toyland report. The good news is the Consumer Product Safety Commission is better equipped to take action against unsafe products, thanks to the passage of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act last year. They have more resources, more power to take action against companies, the ability to issue meaningful fines against companies who do sell unsafe products, and perhaps more importantly, new leadership willing to get tough on companies who break the law. While Chairwoman Inez Tannenbaum acknowledges that the CPSC should have acted even sooner, we applaud the CPSC for taking action against unsafe cribs yesterday. However, most of the provisions within the product safety law just went into effect a few months ago, including the ban on toxic lead and the chemical phthalates, and most toys on store shelves still haven’t been tested. We found a few products that did have toxic chemicals in them, as well as choking hazards and extremely loud toys. One of the toys, a cloth book contaminated with high levels of lead, already has a “stop sale” notice on it. Here are a few of the stories running today:
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