Confused About Toy Safety
A Guide To Choosing Safe Toys For Your Children
This last year has focused a lot of attention on toy safety, particularly lead paint problems in children’s toys. Recall after recall has created great concerns and confusion among parents. Which toys are safe? How can I tell? Which toys have been recalled?
There’s a useful website that has done a lot of the work for you and organized the information to help you answer these questions. Healthy Toys has tested over 1200 toys and categorized the results. Tests were performed on a variety of substances including lead, chlorine, cadmium, arsenic and mercury. A description of the possible health effects is included.
You can search the database by toy name, by brand ( the database covers over 200 companies including Baby Einstein, Disney, Crayola, Fisher-Price, Mega Bloks and Tonka ) or by type (ie. dolls, bath toys, jewelry, squeeze toys, trains, etc.).
Inform yourself on this critical issue relating to child safety by going to the Healthy Toys website.
