Playing with poison: toxins in children's toys

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By Stacy Gittleman In an early Saturday Night Live sketch, a young Candice Bergman and Dan Aykroyd perform in a consumer probe spoof. In the skit, Bergman plays a journalist questioning Aykroyd, who portrays a toy company executive, about the safety of the toys he is trying to market: a knife-wielding Ken doll, and most notably, a bag of broken glass. Jokes aside, toy safety is no laughing matter. Over the decades, toys have come to be the most regulated consumer products on the market. Enacted.
By Stacy Gittleman In an early Saturday Night Live sketch, a young Candice Bergman and Dan Aykroyd perform in a consumer probe spoof. In the skit, Bergman plays a journalist questioning Aykroyd, who portrays a toy company executive, about the safety of the toys he is trying to market: a knife-wielding Ken doll, and most notably, a bag of broken glass. Jokes aside, toy safety is no laughing matter. Over the decades, toys have come to be the most regulated consumer products on the market. Enacted

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