(File Photo: Caption for photo: Young boy playing with educational toys)

(Reported by Danielle Smith of Keystone News Service)

(Harrisburg, PA) As holiday spending in Pennsylvania and across the nation is expected to reach a record high of nearly nine-hundred and eighty-nine billion, there’s no guarantee that everyone who bought toys for the kids in their lives thought about whether they were safe. Many children’s toys are manufactured in other countries, like China and India. Product liability attorney Don Fountain says in their haste to avoid possible Trump administration tariffs, a few safety steps may have been skipped before sending these products to the United States. He believes consumers’ assumptions about toy reliability are not always accurate. The Consumer Product Safety Commission website lists thousands of unsafe or problematic items. Fountain notes complaints listed on the site are due to public grievances, not government detection. Fountain recommends the commission’s website, Saferproducts.gov, to report or search for information about unsafe products.