Safe Toys, Safe Kids

It’s about time for Congress to close the deal on toy safety. We’re asking you to send a picture of your children, so that we can use the pictures to show Congress what’s really at stake.

You can choose (and we hope you will) to identify your child by first name and city. By sending us a picture, you’re agreeing to let us use the picture in a collage we’ll bring to lobby meetings, and on our online photo gallery. We promise not to sell or use the picture for any other purpose.

Thanks for your help – a picture is worth a thousand words!

How To: 

1. Send your picture to photos@uspirg.org. Attach the photo, and please remember to tell us the name of the child pictured.

2. Sign the petition below. 

Petition text:

Dear CPSC Conferee:

Here’s a picture of my child. Congress should give him/her and millions of other children the strongest protection possible from dangerous toys. We urge you to take the strongest parts of both the House and Senate CPSC reform bills as you prepare a final law for the President’s signature before Father’s Day. Any final law should protect children up to 12 years old, as the House bill would provide. It should require third-party testing for hazards of all consumer products, including toys, as the Senate bill would provide. It should ban toxic lead at the lowest level possible and include the Senate’s provision banning toxic phthalate chemicals. On other provisions, children deserve the best of both bills.

Sincerely,