I found this fabulous website for checking your children’s toys for safety: www.healthytoys.org
It lists hundreds of toys, and states whether they found detectable traces of Lead, Cadmium, Chlorine, Arsenic, Mercury, Antimony, Tin, Bromine, or Chromium. It also has a list of “best toys” and “worst toys”. Very quickly, I discovered that cheap kid jewelry is among the most dangerous of toys they tested.
I also noticed that among various brands of toys, test results can vary tremendously. For example, we don’t own any Webkinz, but the bullfrog has medium levels of lead, the black lab and pink pony have medium levels of chlorine, while the koala and Siamese cat are just fine. What a great website! In time, the site should only get better as more toys are tested.
