Toy recall hits home
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Talk about irony. Irvington mom Jamie Schaefer-Wilson works for Consumer Reports, and her special project is keeping kids safe from lead. So when she saw one of her 2-year-old daughter’s Elmo toys on the list of recalled Fisher-Price products, she wasn’t too happy. “It’s very scary. It can happen to any of us,” she told me. (At left is a picture of Jamie with her Elmo toy, taken by staff photographer Joe Larese.)
As we learned yesterday, Fisher-Price has recalled almost 1 million toys because they are contaminated with lead. Here’s a link to our report on the recall, with a list of the recalled toys. We talked to other local parents, a pediatrician and Don Mays, a senior product safety expert at Yonkers-based Consumer Reports magazine. Mays told me he hopes this latest recall will help his effort to convince Congress to require toymakers to have their toys tested for safety by an independent organization.
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