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Report Warns Parents About Toy Dangers

Published December 2, 2008, 1:21 pm, WSAV Savannah

Hazardous toys are still on store shelves across the country, even though there’s a new law that overhauled the nation’s product safety watchdog agency. That’s according to the 23rd annual toy safety survey, “Trouble in Toyland”, released Tuesday by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group (U.S. PIRG). WJBF News Channel 6’s Capitol reporter, Robert Kittle, has the story.

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