Clark has a special warning concerning toy safety just in time for your last-minute holiday shopping.

The consumer champ has long railed against the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) failure to truly protect children from unsafe toys. Now The Wall Street Journal reports that consumer vigilantes affiliated with the Center for Environmental Health (CEH) are taking matters into their own hands.

CEH members are going into stores armed with handheld X-ray guns that detect unsafe levels of lead in children's toys. These vigilantes are able to find violations that the CPSC can't seem to find.

Meanwhile, the CPSC is belatedly getting on the ball and starting to arm its agents with the X-ray guns as well.

In related news, which type of toy typically has the highest concentrations of lead? Jewelry trinkets. The Wall Street Journal article reports the CEH found a frog jewelry charm with high lead content at Wal-Mart that the CPSC missed.

The CEH brought it to the CPSC's attention, but they ultimately had to go to a state regulatory board to have it removed from shelves in California.