Don’t Toy With Me

As you buy toys for your wee ones, or others, I just wanted to give you a brilliant resource: www.HealthyToys.com. 

“HealthyToys.org includes test results for more than 2,200 toys and children’s products. This site is a first step in providing consumers with the information they need to make better choices when purchasing toys and other children’s products.”

Not only can you search their database when home in your bamboo slippers, but you can text them for safety ratings while you are in the toy store!

Why is this important? Well, aside from weekly toy recalls, 1 in 3 toys that HealthyToys.org tested last Christmas season had significant levels of toxic chemicals including lead, flame retardants, and arsenic.  Yes, that arsenic. The one Miss Marple seems to always discover was in the Vicars tea.

Bookmark the site on your Blackberry. You’ll be glad that you did.