The lead story in the latest edition of the CPSC Consumer Product Safety Review calls dangerous small magnets in toys and kids' jewelry #1 on the "List of Deadly Dangers." Deadly Danger #3: Tip-overs. Maybe the recall experts at CPSC ought to read the Safety Review. See our previous entry on their lack of action on deadly stove tip-overs. Also last week, CPSC announced the recall of a Gordy/Family Dollar FUN 'N SAFE Magnetic Dart Board set "due to aspiration and intestinal hazards." The toy is extremely similar to the Gordy/Family Dollar "Fun 'N Games Magnetic Dart Board" identified in PIRG's November 2007 Trouble In Toyland report as a toy that, in our view, posed similar hazards (little magnets fell right out of the darts). The CPSC has not yet announced action on the mysteriously similar PIRG-identified toy.

Also, last night, Senators Inouye, Pryor and Stevens, with some new co-sponsors including Senator Collins (R-ME), introduced S. 2663, the new bi-partisan version of S. 2045, the CPSC Reform Act. Its text should be available on the Thomas legislative server soon. The bill is as described in the Commerce news release from a few days ago, with the addition of some provisions on import safety requested by Senator Collins. It could come to the floor early next week.