In a few days, on the magical Christmas night, thousands of children will be visited by Papa Noël, Tió, Olentzero, Esteru and I don't know how many more characters to give them thousands of gifts and toys.
Well, with no intention of waiting for the party to anyone, I come with this post to communicate that many of the toys children receive present some risk for them.
The Organization of Consumers and Users (OCU) and other consumer associations in other countries have analyzed 77 toys purchased in the European market. Only 43 of them can be considered totally safe.
23 of the toys were bought in Spain and only 11 of them turned out to be safe. Some of the causes for a toy to be considered risky are that they do not comply with the regulations for defects in the labeling, that they have dangerous elements, that generate strident noise, that are composed of toxic substances, and so on.
The results have been sent to toy manufacturers who have responded either by withdrawing toys, or by providing incomplete or contradictory quality certificates or have given inconsistent excuses.
The OCU has transferred the results of the analysis to the National Consumer Institute so that, after the necessary checks, Remove from the market any toy that could endanger the safety of children facing the Christmas campaign and advises parents to take precautions by acquiring toys appropriate to the age of the children, reading the danger warnings and instructions together with the children, keeping the identification of the manufacturer or importer and claiming in case of problems.
From China, the country from which 50% of the toys that were removed last year came from are encouraging messages as they say they will apply new rules to increase the safety of their toys.
We hope that this is the case and for the moment we can only pray that our children have had safe toys.
