toys

Friday is Halloween – a great day for fun and treats. Use these simple tricks to avoid these safety hazards and potential injuries.  Hazard: Jack O’Lanterns and decorative candles can represent very dangerous fire hazards when you have children in costumes playing nearby…. Read More

This week, the Chairman of the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Inez Tenenbaum, announced her Circle of Commendation Award winners for 2013. Each year, this award has been given to organizations and individuals who have worked to improve product… Read More

When I came across this story, it caught my eye – a young boy was injured when a toy eyeball he was playing with cracked and leaked into his eyes.  In KID’s early days, our co-founder Boaz Keysar used to… Read More

As we have done every year since 2002, today KID released our report on children’s product recalls from the past year.  In 2012, the number of children’s product recalls continued to decline to 97, the lowest number since 2004.   But… Read More

More than 2 million dangerous toys were stopped at ports and kept from ending up on store shelves due to joint action by CPSC and the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2012.  In the past four years, since… Read More

Today, Kids In Danger (KID) released an analysis of data from the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that shows that high-powered magnets continue to be a safety risk to children. From toddlers to teens, children who swallow two or… Read More

In 2005 Kenny died when he swallowed magnets that had fallen out unnoticed from his siblings’ Magnetix building set. Over time these and other toys with small magnets were recalled and new toy standards were developed to address the hazard…. Read More

On October 14, 2011, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced that a civil penalty of $1.1 million was settled against Henry Gordy International, Inc. This comes as result of the company’s failure to report a known safety defect… Read More

WASHINGTON– Consumer and safety groups today praised the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for voting to implement rules to require the independent safety testing of toys and other children’s products.  Consumer Federation of America, Consumers Union, and Kids in Danger… Read More

“When you look at where we have been and where we are headed”, said CPSC Chairman Inez Tenenbaum, only two weeks ago, “you can see why we are agency on the rise.” It seems that these words are beginning to… Read More