9news.com: “It’s a law that aims at protecting children and consumers from lead poisoning in toys, clothes and other everyday items. However, it comes at a steep price for the city’s only toy library. ‘We’ve collected a lot of toys over the years, 500 toys,’ said Kristel Deckx, a volunteer with the Denver Toy Library, ‘but most of them aren’t safe because we don’t have proof that they don’t have lead in them.’ . . . Out of the Toy Library’s 500 toys, nearly 400 had to be thrown out because of new federal safety laws regulating lead content, which went into effect in February.”
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