Toxic Toys, Christmas Presents

I should be cleaning, or working on photos, but I heard this story on NPR this morning about toxic toys and had to share this website.
I've had a thing about toys since the boys were babes, but it was always a "crazy mom" bent. It's just, if they make thousands of toys in Europe that pass really stringent safety tests (physical as well as chemical) why can't we have similar standards here? It doesn't seem that hard. I know it has to do with our governmental system and my husband would say for the govt. to stay out of it and let the free market dictate how our toys are made. But I say that's retarded and unless there is a tag attached to each toy stating it's toxicity level, the lack of information provided to the average consumer will keep her/him from knowing what to buy.
All that to say, there's this website, healthytoys.org, that is really helpful. If you are buying Christmas gifts to kids this year, it's worth a gander. How else will you be able to choose which gift to give baby this year? Mercury or Lead? Arsenic or a chunk of chlorine to chew on?
It also takes less than 2 minutes to send a quick note to your congressional rep via the healthytoys homepage. If I could sign a petition twice, it would be that one.
Also, they have a search engine where you can look up exact toys that were tested for chemicals. It just ate up 20 minutes of my time, but I feel a lot better about letting Joshua gnaw on that puzzle piece.
Here's a few of the surprising toys I found on their worst toys list:
Wii



Leapster/Wall.EAlex Crayons




I hope that didn't come off preachy. I'm just sad that the FDA or some other regulartory commission doesn't have standards for what our babes put in their mouths. I sweep my floors so Joshua won't eat that suspicious dirt clump, why wouldn't I want to make sure that their toys are hyped up on bromine?