When you shop for toys for children, it is necessary to know which of the toys you are considering are safe to purchase and which ones are not. Some toys have been recalled but the stores continue to shelf them. If you are not up to date with the recall list, then you could purchase some nice toys that your children will play with all the time but they might turn out to contain some harmful materials. You need to be very careful when buying toddlers toys or toys for babies especially because even a tiny amount of toxic substance in toys can hurt them.
It is a sad fact that harmful toys are still sold in stores across the country, despite multiple laws that are put in place to protect kids from hazardous toys. Toy safety is a major problem that parents worry about endlessly. Although most of the toys on store shelves are considered safe, there continues to be quite a few toys that pose some safety hazards to small children. With that fact in mind, 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 toys that were considered to be safe such as those labeled as phthalate-free. Bear in mind that even some products labeled phthalate-free could contain the dangerous chemical.
While manufacturers of toys should act swiftly to recall unsafe products and also give parents all the information they need to allow them to purchase toys that are safe for their kids, some of them just do not. You will no doubt have heard of many toy recalls on TV but there are plenty more toy recalls that you may not be aware of. Therefore, parents may not be aware that they are unsafe to use or buy. The Consumer Product Safety Commission, the agency charged with keeping toys and other products safe, have put out alerts and information on toy safety but there are still lots 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 think 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).