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How to Find the Safest Toys this Holiday Season

What you can do: Do your research on this year's hottest toys before hitting the stores.

Toxic Metal Found in Imported Toys

What you can do: Avoid buying imported metal toys and jewelry for young children; choose simpler, unpainted wooden toys instead.

How to Enjoy Your Pool, without the Toxicity

What you can do: Look for rafts and toys made from EVA and other safe plastics, and use recycled items that can withstand chlorinated water.

Toxic Toys 2010: Is Cadmium This Year's Worst Toy-Tainter?

What you can do: See our list of healthy toymakers; shop for children's toys made by companies that use safe ingredients.

Barbie Gets Greener Packaging

What you can do: Join a toy "lending library" or buy gently used dolls to avoid packaging altogether.

Toxic Toys Become a Little Less Legal

What you can do: Buy our back-to-school e-book to learn what you can do now, before the law is fully in place.