CPSIA Links

More than $1 billion in unsalable merchandise from WSJ.
Gymboree says CPSIA will impact sales and gross margins in 2009.

CPSIA Hurts Local Business

From KCCI.
Country Cycle in Winterset sells ATVs, dirt bikes and motorcycles for adults and children.
General Manager Donnie Clark said, “We have been spoken to by the manufacturer and we are not allowed to sell any of the new models for people 12 and under.”
Clark said he’s waiting on manufacturers like Kawasaki to send him a [...]

CPSIA – nastygram from a Congresswoman to a private citizen.

Kathleen Fasanella (from fashion-incubator) received a nasty-gram from Rep Schakowsky (IL). There just aren’t words to describe it, please follow the link and read for yourself.

CPSIA – Raise Your Hand If You Understand the Dangers Of Lead and Phthalates

An excellent article by Little Ida.
A snippet:
Now I ask you to explain to me how the CPSIA will keep children safe, and how exactly it addresses the problem at hand. And while you’re at it, show me one *American made* children’s product that has harmed a child due to the presence of lead or phthalates. [...]

cpsia

I have been reading over at the cpsc today, the requests for exemption by various industries.
Personal favorites:
“WIMA notes that without such an exclusion, the annual manufacture, distribution and sale of five to seven billion pen products will come to a halt in this country.”   — The last line of the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association letter, [...]

Felony to be a mom

I found this post to be funny. (And what she is saying is true.)

CPSIA – more

Another excellent post from Kathleen, talking about how the latest stay of enforcement doesn’t really change anything for many businesses.
She makes excellent points. (And you should absolutely read it.) However, for me, it makes all the difference. I have a few components I can’t guarantee the lead content of – I’m sending those off next [...]

CPSIA, the good

I will tell you, since I really started becoming aware of how much this would affect me (every time I feel bad for not seeing it my first few times through the law, I’m reassured by the knowledge that two attorneys said they experienced the same thing!), I have really learned a LOT.

My Congressmen really [...]

CPSIA, Fashion Incubator, and the wonderful Kathleen

Just realized I haven’t posted a link to one of my favorite Kathleen (of Fashion Incubator, who I have come to deeply respect recently) posts of all time. here you go. It’s a letter responding to various special interest groups who have been waging quite the misinformation campaign about CPSIA.
Kathleen raises an important point that [...]

Some members of Congress ask Obama to remove Nancy Nord from CPSC

OK, I’m clearly out of my league here. I could NEVER be involved in politics. I just am flabbergasted by the circular fingerpointing going on here. I mean, I think Congress enacted a difficult and overly broad law and then refused to fully staff the CPSC while deflecting all the blame onto the CPSC and [...]