{"id":21112,"date":"2023-12-05T16:52:20","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T16:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/?p=21112"},"modified":"2025-11-19T17:33:33","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T17:33:33","slug":"consumer-health-minute-toy-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-toy-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Health Minute: Toy Safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-21118 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"store shelf full of toys in boxes\" width=\"226\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-1536x1156.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2023\/11\/toys-2048x1542.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/>It\u2019s not surprising that December is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apha.org\/Events-and-Meetings\/APHA-Calendar\/2021\/2021-Safe-Toys-and-Gifts-Month\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Safe Toys and Gifts Awareness Month<\/a>. You\u2019ll find people heading to stores and online to shop for family, friends, and even for themselves during this holiday season. As much as you might be wanting to give the younger family members everything on their wish lists, it\u2019s a good idea to take a moment to research the safety and appropriateness of some of those items. Though the number of toy related injuries is declining, there was an estimated 209,500 reported toy injuries treated at U.S. hospital emergency departments in 2022 according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/Newsroom\/News-Releases\/2024\/Make-it-a-Home-Safe-Home-for-the-Holidays\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some resources to learn more about the safety of toys.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthychildren.org\/English\/safety-prevention\/at-home\/Pages\/How-to-Buy-Safe-Toys.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Buy Safe Toys<\/a>, healthychildren.org<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/resources\/toy-safety-tips-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toy Safety Tips<\/a>, PIRG<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/playsafe.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Toy safety tips, recalls, buying guide, and more,<\/a>\u00a0PlaySafe.org<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Kidshealth.org has a number of links specific to toy safety in English, Spanish and an audio option.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/safe-toys.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choosing Safe Toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/products-toys.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choosing Safe Baby Products: Toys<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/safetoys-young.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choosing Safe Toys for Toddlers and Preschoolers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/safetoys-bigkid.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Choosing Safe Toys for School-Age Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For recalls, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission website<\/a> which\u00a0 includes recalled toys, report an unsafe toy, and sign up to receive email notices.<\/p>\n<p>You may not be able to prevent every injury possible with a toy but know that the safer and age appropriate toy, the more fun they\u2019ll have and a happier holiday will be had by all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not surprising that December is Safe Toys and Gifts Awareness Month. You\u2019ll find people heading to stores and online to shop for family, friends, and even for themselves during this holiday season. As much as you might be wanting to give the younger family members everything on their wish lists, it\u2019s a good idea&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/consumer-health-minute-toy-safety\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[316,457,10],"tags":[119,293],"class_list":["post-21112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-health","category-consumer-health-minute","category-health-observances","tag-consumer-health","tag-holiday-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21119,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21112\/revisions\/21119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.nnlm.gov\/region_5\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}