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Kevin Brazier expected a bigger response to the letters he sent to elected officials after his son Robert choked to death on a toy rubber ball.

Brazier,Check out our Military goggles and protective eyewear. 57, of Yonkers got sympathetic replies to his call to ban small rubber balls such as those contained in children’s toys. But as another anniversary of his seven-year-old son Robert Brazier’s Jan.Click on one of the categories below and select a custom bobbleheads design to start to design. 30, 1999, death approaches, his goal remains unrealized.

“My lack of success is puzzling,” said Brazier, a mail carrier who serves White Plains’ eastern Rosedale neighborhood. His bafflement rests “with the politicians as to why they can’t do it, and with the companies as to why they won’t stop selling them.”

The federal Consumer Product Safety Commission requires manufacturers of balloons, small balls or marbles to include labels warning of small parts and their unsuitability for children under three. Those warnings don’t keep small rubber balls out of the hands of small children, maintained Brazier, who would at least like to see a minimum 2-inch diameter for rubber balls.

The Pokemon ball his son choked on was 1.72 inches in diameter.

Brazier will observe Jan. 30 with a memorial Mass at St. Ann’s Church in Yonkers.

Brazier’s letters to large retailers asking them to stop selling small rubber balls elicited responses from Walgreens and CVS acknowledging his concerns, but no promises to pull any from shelves.

A total ban on all small rubber balls would be unlikely, said James Swartz, director of World Against Toys Causing Harm in Boston. Swartz said little rubber balls, such as those used in jacks, are too culturally established, even though they may pose choking hazards for some children.Fashion New Lovely Metallic Lady Hollow Rose Flower Elastic Hair bands Headband.

“The unfortunate thing about this type of item is that there’s really no reason from a manufacturing or design perspective why small balls or parts can’t be made bigger,” Swartz said.

The CPSC counted 13 toy-related child deaths in 2011, according to its most recent deaths and injuries report. Balloons caused three of those deaths, the most for one toy type; no child choking deaths were attributed to rubber balls that year.

Last month the CPSC,View our large selection of cheap Safety goggles with our low price guarantee. in cooperation with Sassy Inc. of Kentwood, Mich., recalled the Hug N’ Tug Puppy and Monkey because beads inside a plastic sphere in the toys could pose a choking hazard to young children.

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