About Toy Afterglow

What it is

Toy Afterglow puts the official toy safety rules of the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and Australia side by side, and turns them into tools you can use with a real toy in your hand: an age checker, a printable small-parts tester, a decoder for the symbols on the box, a button battery checklist, a recall search and a gift guide by age.

Where the information comes from

Every rule is taken from the law or regulator that sets it, such as the US Code of Federal Regulations and the Consumer Product Safety Commission, EUR-Lex, legislation.gov.uk and the UK’s Office for Product Safety and Standards, and Australia’s Federal Register of Legislation, and each page lists its sources with the date they were checked. Child development information comes from the CDC and the American Academy of Pediatrics. Where a standard isn’t free to read, such as ASTM F963 or EN 71, the pages say so rather than guess at its contents.

What it isn’t

It is general information, not legal or medical advice, and it doesn’t test or approve toys. The maker of a toy is responsible for testing and labelling it correctly. If a child swallows a button battery, magnet or water bead, get emergency help straight away; the numbers are at the foot of every page.

Nothing is sold here and no product is recommended. The site links to two free services by the same owner, CleanTempMail and WebTraceCheck, where they help with the online side of buying toys.

How it works

Everything runs in your browser. What you type into the tools is not sent anywhere; the recall search builds plain links that open each regulator’s own website. The site uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views without cookies or cross-site tracking and never receives what you type into the tools. See the privacy page for the details.