Security Group Releases Annual Harmful Toys Checklist
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 16, 2016 (HealthDay Information) -- With the vacation season approaching, the patron watchdog group World In opposition to Toys Inflicting Hurt (WATCH) has launched it annual listing of probably the most harmful toys.
The group urges dad and mom to be cautious when shopping for toys this vacation season, noting that since January 2015 there have been remembers involving greater than 800,000 particular person merchandise, together with 500,000 this 12 months alone.
In keeping with WATCH, each three minutes a toddler is handled in a U.S. emergency room for a toy-related damage. Since January 2015, there have been no less than 19 toys with security defects recalled in the USA. These remembers concerned greater than 800,000 models of toys -- together with 500,000 this 12 months, the group stated in a information launch.
"Customers can examine new toys in addition to toys already in properties and colleges for harmful hazards and steer clear of any toys which will have been recalled, brought on accidents, or are faulty. Consciousness of basic hidden toy hazards can stop accidents. Shockingly, basic toy risks, equivalent to small elements, strings, projectiles, poisonous substances, inflexible supplies, and inaccurate warnings and labels, resurface every year in newly designed toys," the group stated.
Right here is WATCH's listing of the 10 worst toys of 2016, the place they're bought and the dangers they pose:
- Peppa Pig's Muddy Puddles Household. Goal, Amazon.com. Choking hazard from small elements.
- Children Time Child Kids's Elephant Pillow. Amazon.com. Suffocation hazard, however no warning.
- Slimeball Slinger. Toys 'R' Us, Amazon.com. Slimeball ammunition may be fired with sufficient drive to trigger eye accidents.
- Banzai Bump N' Bounce Physique Bumpers. Walmart, Amazon.com, Ebay.com, Sears.com. Potential for impression accidents.
- Nerf Rival Apollo XV-700 Blaster. Walmart.com, Goal.com, Amazon.com, Kmart.com. Potential for eye accidents however carries no warning.
- The Good Dinosaur Galloping Butch. Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Toys 'R' Us.com. Potential for puncture wounds as a consequence of pointed tail. Warns about small elements however not about puncture wound risk.
- Peppy Pups. Toys 'R' Us. Threat of strangulation as a consequence of lengthy wire. Carries no warning.
- Flying Heroes Superman Launcher. Toys 'R' Us, Amazon.com, Walmart.com, Sears.com, Ebay.com, BigW.com. Threat of eye and facial accidents.
- Child Magic Feed and Play Child. Toys 'R' Us, Amazon.com, Sears.com. Spoon that comes with doll has the potential to be mouthed and block a toddler's airway. Has no warning.
- Warcraft Doomhammer. Toys 'R' Us, Amazon.com. Threat of blunt impression accidents.
The security group stated the 10 Worst Toys listing highlights risks in sure toys, however dad and mom and different shoppers ought to know that these should not the one doubtlessly hazardous toys available on the market.
-- Robert Preidt
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SOURCE: World In opposition to Toys Inflicting Hurt, information launch, Nov. 15, 2016
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