Press release: “Hazardous toys are still sold in stores across the country, according to the 22nd annual toy safety survey released today by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG)…According to the most recent data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), toy-related injuries sent almost 73,000 children under the age of five to emergency rooms in 2005. Twenty children died from toy-related injuries that year. For 22 years, the U.S. PIRG Trouble in Toyland report has offered safety guidelines for purchasing toys for small children and provided examples of toys currently on store shelves that pose potential safety hazards…U.S. PIRG’s 2007 research focused on several categories of toy dangers: toys that pose choking hazards, toys with powerful magnets, toys that contain lead, and toys that pose strangulation hazards.”

• Trouble in Toyland, The 22nd Annual Survey of Toy Safety, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, November 2007 (58 pages, PDF)
• See also CPSC Delivers the ABC’s of Toy Safety, November 20, 2007
• Commentary: China gets the blame for this year’s wave of recalls—but American industry has been working for years to gut government safety standards, By Marla Felcher, November/December 2007 Mother Jones