Advocacy groups alert parents to dangerous playthings.
But experts also warned that the onus is on parents to ensure that the toys they buy are safe and age-appropriate.
In 2017 a German regulator, the Federal Network Agency, asked parents who had bought the doll to destroy it as it violates privacy by recording conversations and transmitting audio files to a remote server without parental consent. These included 23 children with minor to moderate injuries resulting from beads found on toys, and nine children from falling off mobile toys like rollerblades.
"Warning labels do mitigate risk to a company, but they are only as good as the people paying attention to them.
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