More CPSIA guidance

CPSC issues new guidance document for CPSIA compliance. There is nothing new in this document, but it DOES explain things in regular English. Of note: they promise a future rule on component testing. Component testing, combined with the exemptions they’ve made so far for fabric, will make my life SO MUCH easier. The record-keeping part [...]

One more CPSIA for today

This one about books. My favorite line:
A further question is what to do about public libraries, which daily expose children under 12 to pre-1985 editions of Anne of Green Gables, Beatrix Potter, Baden-Powell’s scouting guides, and other deadly hazards.
The New Book Banning.

One CPSC commissioner, Thomas Moore, has already called for libraries to “sequester” some undefinedly [...]

Organic Baby Farm closing baby bootie division over CPSIA

Read her blog post about it – she raises many of the issues I’m struggling with.
http://organicbabyfarm.blogspot.com/2009/08/decision-to-close.html

cpsc issues guidance on labeling requirements

Seriously, though, couldn’t they have done this a few months ago??
http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/sect103policy.pdf
Good news: They have defined “location of manufacture” to mean city and state.
Good news: They have noted that they recognize that “date of production” is a little undefinable, since MOST products are manufactured over the course of several days. “date” can be a range. For [...]

section 104 – maybe not

CPSC’s changed their website, making finding the FAQ from earlier very difficult. I was able to finally dig up this old FAQ:
http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/faq/104faq.html#slings
That says that slings are NOT considered durable nursery goods, which is good news if that’s still their stance…

Me to CPSC

These are the comments I submitted today:
I own a small business making fabric baby carriers. My sales, in terms of number of carriers sold, are in the hundreds each year, not the millions or even the thousands. Because of this, and because of my record-keeping, I can currently already pull up the name and address [...]

CPSIA and Durable Nursery Products

Durable Nursery Products include baby carriers.
The CPSC posted this gem today.
Section 104(d) of the
Consumer Product Safety Improvement
Act of 2008 (‘‘CPSIA’’) requires the
United States Consumer Product Safety
Commission (‘‘Commission’’) to
promulgate a final consumer product
safety rule requiring each manufacturer
of a durable infant or toddler product to:
Provide with each product a postagepaid
consumer registration form; keep
records of consumers who register [...]

Bacteria in food Ok with Congress?

Got to thinking about this today.
There have been several food recalls in recent memory. Today, cookie dough.
If, in the wake of these food recalls, Congress passed a law requiring all food manufacturers to test EVERY batch of food, once completed, and before sale to the consumer, for bacteria, and if those tests were really expensive [...]

CPSIA – what can I do now?

Contact your Congressmen and women and ask them to support HR1815, the Consumer Product Safety Solutions Act of 2009. The bill was introduced by Energy and Commerce Committee Ranking Member Joe Barton, R-Texas, and could extend certain deadlines, provide more flexibility to the Consumer Product Safety Commission to grant exemptions and adjust testing and labeling [...]

CPSIA

I don’t have the energy to respond to the Consumer Reports blog post about the CPSIA, but I didn’t realize until now how full of lies those publications must be.
Here is some good CPSIA Myth Busting.
Part One
Part Two