Following the death of her daughter, Trista Hamsmith turned her grief into action to help make button batteries harder for kids to access — but the law that passed didn’t apply to toys. Hamsmith tried to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to apply the standard to toys, but the effort stalled over the summer. The agency has lost key leadership and staff, and now, two former CPSC commissioners are issuing warnings to consumers:

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Finally on the road to getting answers after our rapid respiratory appointment. She’s on 6 weeks of antibiotics to rule out anything bacterial and she has Laryngo-tracheo- broncopy and lower airway Bronscopy surgery booked in on the same day very soon. Also getting bloods and genetic testing done to hopefully figure out why her airways are like this. The hospital respiratory and ENT have been so thorough since being admitted and I’m grateful to finally be on the right path to getting answers #fo