This Does Seem Like a More Pro-Market, Consumer-Empowering Way of Going About Things

It is suggested that parents and grandparents (and presumably, auntly sorts) check those Christmas toys before purchase:

Parents who don’t take precautions in purchasing presents this year could end up buying the item that kills a child or grandchild, some experts in the field warn.

Christiana Mercer, an advocate with the Arizona Public Interest Research Group, demonstrated various toys that can poison, choke or otherwise cause problems. Mercer, along with Rustin Morse, chief of emergency at Phoenix Children’s Hospital, said while some of the hazards are obvious, many are not.

No pressure. I feel prepared to conduct painstaking tests, don't you? But, of course, Bob is kind of busy, so we have to pitch in where we can:

“There’s only one tester in its labs right now for toys,’’ she said. And Mercer said the federal government has only 15 people who have to go through all of the millions of toys that are imported each year to spot potential hazards.

And in other related news, Aqua Dots have been advertised in Sunday circulars. Whoops.