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Do you know what labels to look for when you purchase a toy for Christmas? This article will help you! Toy safety symbols are located on the packaging of our babies and children’s toys, and sometimes on the toy as well. Have you ever wondered what they mean? We have! So we have done some [...]
The following set of crib safety checklists comes from one of our respected Approved Vendors, Baby Eco Trends. We’d love to hear your thoughts and insights if you have any additional points to offer when looking for a safe and non-toxic sleeping environment for your baby. This summer, the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission [...]
We have received a couple questions from a reader who has some concerns with silicone. We received these questions through facebook and would love it if you would become a facebook fan too! Is silicone safe? It seems like so many things are made with silicone. Are we going to find out in a year [...]
We love receiving questions from parents inquiring on how to choose the safest alternatives available for their little miracles! Recently, this question was asked through a facebook fan and would love it if you would become a facebook fan too! The question of concern from our facebook fan and reader we are addressing today: Can [...]
Consuming Kids is an hour message that is incredibly eye-opening and positively influential! This documentary helps us recognize who we are permitting to teach our children about values, where happiness comes from, and on what truly makes them important and worthy individuals. I use to think that since my child didn’t watch cable television, she [...]
If you have been a loyal reader of SAFbaby.com since the beginning of December, you have been part of our obsession with toy safety and the new toy safety regulations (which go into effect today.) Our post titled Are We The Dumping Ground for Toxic Toys? questioned the revision to the laws that were put [...]
When we read Mark Schapiro’s comment in Mothering Magazine in the December issue regarding China manufacturing plants having 2 different assembly lines for the same toy, (one with the toxic substance phthalates permitted and made for sale in the USA, and the other assembly line safer, made for sale in Europe) we knew we had [...]
The new American Standard Toy Safety Standard (ASTM-963) requires children toys to be phthalates free and contain none to very low levels of lead. However, not all toxic substances are addressed in the ASTM-963 law. We at Safbaby.com looking for even safer standards, like 100% free of PVC, Lead and Fire retardants. (The ASTM-F963 has [...]
There is a big debate happening right now regarding the CPSIA’s new laws and regulations regarding toys that will be able to be manufactured after February 2009. A debate AND a good amount of confusion on all the details. For the most part, if you are a small ‘Ma-n-Pa’ company or boutique making products for [...]
We have literally been up to our ears in toy safety this season. We have reviewed so many toys with our toddlers testing them along side of us. We have interviewed experts in the toy safety world, and we have been interviewed for our thoughts too! We have put a serious filter (to say the [...]
“I’m writing about the challenge of finding safe toys for Christmas. Have you found it’s any easier to find safe toys, now that Congress passed the CPSC law? It doesn’t take effect until February, so I’m wondering if parents can shop with confidence, or if they still have to be careful, checking out each individual [...]