Research Paper on:
Children's Products and Issues of Safety

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and on to even the paint on the walls of their homes, children are potentially always in harms way. For example, a child could be too close to the fireplace  in the living room, wearing pajamas that are not made of a flame-retardant or resistant fabric and a spark could ignite her clothing. She could be strapped into her safety  seat but it might be an inferior product that offers her virtually no protection in an accident. Even the flaking paint on an older home or apartments walls could elevate  the lead levels in her bloodstream to a dangerous level. Perhaps, the reason child safety is of such concern, other than the love a parent has for a child, is  that children have no ability to protect themselves from the things in their world. And, "unintentional injury" is the number one killer of children under the age of 14 (National  Safe Kids Campaign). Types of Products -- Toys and Safety Seats What type of products can be the most dangerous? One need only look under the kitchen sink, in  the garage, or even in the toybox to see potential hazards. It is the products that a child comes into contact with on a constant basis or the ones that  he or she can easily gain access to that have to be scrutinized the most closely. Toys and car safety seats immediately come to mind. For example, information published in  the December, 1995, issue of JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association referencing statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that show that: "29 percent of all  childhood deaths from asphyxiation of a foreign object between 1972 and 1992 were caused by balloons, 19 percent were caused by balls and marbles and 20 percent by toy parts"