Modern Toys

Greenbrier International (Dollar Stores) black & white toy plastic horse (year unknown) positive for unsafe levels of Lead — Please remove from your child’s toy box!

October 14, 2022September 29, 2023

October 14, 2022 — Friday This small plastic black and white toy horse made by Greenbrier International (the company that makes toys for the Dollar Store/ Dollar Tree chains) tested positive for a very high level of Lead: 3,382 ppm Lead (see full XRF test results below). It also tested positive for an extremely high…

MagnaTiles® brand magnetic building toy tested positive for trace levels of Arsenic, Mercury, and Cadmium in the metal rivets.

December 28, 2021January 1, 2022

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Published: December 27, 2021 – Monday (actually in the wee hours of December 28 – by the time we hit the “Publish” button!) Some background – OH THE DRAMA! So I have been wanting to tell this little story for quite some time, but frankly most days I don’t have the emotional energy to deal…

August 19, 2020: More than 52,000 Nerf Hasbro Super Soaker XP20 & XP30 toys (sold at Target) recalled for Lead violation.

August 20, 2020December 25, 2021

Wednesday, August 19, 2020 Nearly 53,000 Nerf Hasbro Super Soaker toy water guns [sold exclusively at Target] have been recalled for a CPSC Lead content standard violation. Here’s the link to the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (the standards that were violated by this toy.) The specific violation is that the ink in…

#LeadFreeToys: Stacking Cups

March 9, 2017November 24, 2017

Green Sprouts Plastic Stacking Cups Bath Toy: Lead Free! (ND for Cd, As, & Hg Too!) Check out my #SaferChoices Posts Here. Click here to see this product on Amazon. learn more about XRF Testing here. If you appreciate what I do & would like to support my advocacy work (including the XRF testing I do…