Using the Product Search

HealthyToys.org includes test results for more than 1,200 toys and children's products. In cases where toys had many different components (building blocks of different colors, for example, or plastic dolls with fabric and plastic), researchers attempted to collect a useful number of samples from each toy. For this reason, the data reflects over 3,000 individual samples of different product components. The XRF machine (see methodology for more details) identified some elements in each of these components. Based on these results, each product tested was given an overall rating, as well as an individual chemical rating for cadmium, chlorine, lead, arsenic and mercury.

A detailed description of the rating system is provided in the product rating section.

Other features of the HealthyToys.org ste include:

For a detailed description of our rating system and methodology, visit the product ranking section of the website
You can search for your children's product using the search function, by the toy name, or generate a listof toys tested by brand or by toy type.
You can keep a list of toys using the website's list function.
If your toy isn't on the database, and you'd like us to test for you; just view our list and cast your vote or nominate your toy. We will test the most requested toys weekly.
In other areas of the HealthyToys.org site you can take action, learn more about the details of our testing, or get additional information about chemicals. Explore the site and let us know what you think - we'd love to hear from you!