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The
Water Yo-Yo Survey of Online Toy Retailers Loopholes
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Survey Findings In October and November 2003 a team of 106 field study participants surveyed 71 stores in New York State including stores in all five boroughs of New York City, in Long Island and Westchester. Surveyors also identified toys in stores located in Albany, New Paltz, Binghamton, Cortland, Syracuse, Oswego and Buffalo. The purpose of the survey was to identify toys that posed potential hazards to young children. The surveyors identified 262 potentially dangerous toys. More children die and are seriously injured from choking on toys and toy parts than any other toy hazard. Therefore, the surveyors focused on toys that could pose a choking hazard to small children. The surveyors identified: • 90 toys that contained small parts • 51 toys that contained near small parts • 20 toys
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27 toys that contained small play food  Figure 1 - Small Play Food poses a Choking Hazard • 3 packets of latex balloons targeted to toddlers • 30 toys that lacked the safety label required by the Child Safety Protection Act •
29 toys that could pose strangulation hazards  Figure 2 - Humpty Dumpty Pull Toy poses a Strangulation and Entanglement Hazard • 24 toys that could pose a laceration hazard due to their sharp edges • 10 projectile toys that could pose an eye or face injury to children • 19 toys that were very loud and could damage a child's hearing • 20 toys that could pose a clothing, finger or hair entanglement hazard • 2 baby walkers that could pose a tipping or falling hazard •
3 scooters that could pose fall-related injuries NEXT: Choking Hazards
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