What To Do With Recalled Toys

By Phil Villarreal December 8, 2010
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Before allowing your kids to play with toys relatives give them during the holidays, it’s a good idea to make sure they aren’t known death traps. The Better Business Bureau sent in some suggestions on how to make sure your toys haven’t been recalled, and what to if you find out they have been summoned to toy hell.

Before you throw out the packaging, check out the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and ToyInfo sites, which list active recalls.

If you spot your toy on a recall list, it’s probably easiest to take it back to the retailer at which it was purchased, but you can also check the CPSC sit for details about how to return the products to the manufacturer.

If you’d rather check your recalls over the phone, here’s a BBB-provided list of toy recall hotlines:

* Consumer Products Safety Commission: (800) 638-2772

* Toy Industry Association: (888) 888-4TOYS

* Mattel: (800) 916-4498

* Fisher-Price: (800) 991-2444

* Toys R Us: (800) 869-7787

If you’re a parent, what do you do to screen your kids’ presents?

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Comments

  1. Loias supports harsher punishments against corporations says:
    December 8, 2010 at 10:05 am

    What To Do With Recalled Toys

    Regift.

  2. obits3 says:
    December 8, 2010 at 10:11 am

    what do you do to screen your kids’ presents?

    TSA (Toy Screening Agency)

  3. rework says:
    December 8, 2010 at 10:33 am

    I am NOT giving up my Jarts!

  4. reds97 says:
    December 8, 2010 at 11:01 am

    I dont… if they receive a toy they get the toy. If i think it is unsafe i will take it away. If i hear the recall on the news i will check.
    If they happen to stuff a lego up their nose.. lesson learned. I expect my kids to know better the next time.

  5. deejmer says:
    December 8, 2010 at 11:02 am

    Why share the Mattel number…..I doubt they’ll have any more recalls now that they do their own lead testing……

  6. smartmuffin says:
    December 8, 2010 at 12:06 pm

    Why are you citing the BBB when just a few weeks ago you linked to a hit-piece on them explaning how they were useless and evil and corrupt?

  7. Slave For Turtles says:
    December 8, 2010 at 12:46 pm

    I’ve got “Island of Misfit Toys” going through my head now.

  8. Quake 'n' Shake says:
    December 8, 2010 at 3:49 pm

    I just give them to nieces and nephew I don’t like, or to kids of people I don’t like.

  9. gman863 says:
    December 9, 2010 at 1:05 am

    Did “Bag O’ Glass” make this year’s list?