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Recently the Associated Press ran a story about the metal content of a number of items of children’s jewelry made in China. The AP tested some jewelry products and found that some of the items contained cadmium. The article speculated that the manufacturers of these items substituted cadmium in place of lead because [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of children’s bangle bracelets. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Hazard: The surface coating on the bracelets contains high levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard. Incidents/Injuries: None reported. Toy police ban children’s BigBox Hockey Sets for containing excessive levels of lead violating the federal lead paint standard. Units: About 580. Hazard: The surface coating on the boards, which are assembled together to form the floor hockey playing-field, contain excessive levels of lead violating the federal lead paint standard. Description and Models: [...] Amend the CPSIA: “The Democrats apparently have it in for rhinestones and are so uptight about this ‘menace’ that they are willing to write an outright ban into the CPSIA, via Mr. Waxman’s new amendment. No more bling for you! Have we finally entered the land of the looneys? . . . [...] An onerous federal law called the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) prevents the sale of products to children unless the products and their component parts each pass an expensive test for lead that proves the products and their components lead content is below the stringent federal lead standard. Many companies that used [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), aka Toy Police, announced that Schylling Associates Inc., of Rowley, Mass. agreed to pay a $200,000 civil penalty. The penalty settlement . . . resolves staff allegations that the company violated the federal lead paint ban regarding toys with surface paints containing lead that exceed the [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada today announced a voluntary recall of Tiny Tink and Friends Children’s Toy Jewelry Set. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Hazard: A cylindrical metal connector on a charm can contain levels of total lead in excess of 300 ppm, which [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada today announced a voluntary recall of papyrus Brand Greeting Cards with bracelets. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Units: About 174,000. Hazard: The surface paint coating on the bracelets sold with greeting cards contain excessive levels of lead violating the [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, aka Toy Police, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Children’s Metal Necklaces. Hazard: The recalled necklaces contain high levels of cadmium. Cadmium is toxic if ingested by young children and [...] U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Nature Wonders HD Pinto Horse Toy Figures. Hazard: The surface paint coating on [...]
ABC News: “A landmark agreement involving two big retail chains establishes, for the first time, limits on lead in women’s handbags and wallets. The Center for Environmental Health . . . bought purses. The group had the bags tested for lead at an independent lab. Some bags were wiped to see [...] Washington Post: “What happened when the U.S. cracked down on Chinese imports of children’s toys, jewelry and other items containing lead in 2008? Chinese manufacturers apparently just swapped out the lead for cadmium, another cheap, dangerous heavy metal. While various government agencies and Congress debate what’s to be done about the recent influx [...] Overlawyered: “The full report is here (PDF); the commission’s Democratic and Republican members managed to reach consensus on enough points to allow for a bipartisan report. Deserving of particularly close attention are the supplementary views (also PDF) by Commissioners Nancy Nord and Anne Northup, and Northup appends to her remarks many letters from [...] Yesterday John Stossel’s TV show on “Crony Capitalism” discussed the incredibly stupid Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) with CPSC Commissioner Anne Northup. She explained how every component of chidlren’s toys and clothing must now be tested for lead even though it is not possible for the children to ingest enough lead from [...] CPSIA Comments & Observations: “The Alliance for Children’s Product Safety’s ‘CPSIA Casualty of the Week‘ highlights how the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is disrupting the U.S. marketplace in order to draw attention to the problems faced by small businesses, public institutions, consumers and others trying to comply with senseless and often [...] The law of unintended consequences continues to apply to laws made by Congress. The Associated Press conducted an investigation on the content of Chinese children’s jewelry products and found that a 12 out of 103 sample jewelry items contained over 10 percent cadmium. Cadmium (not regulated by U.S. law) is more dangerous than lead, which [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of a children’s book called “Big Rex and Friends.” Hazard: A red plastic dot sewn in the book contains high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects. Incidents/Injuries: None reported. Description: This recall involves “Big [...] The United States may be at risk for a terrorist attack, but at least the U.S. government is protecting the health of its toy eating children. To quote Janet Napolitono, head of Homeland Security, when it comes to protecting kids from dangerous toys, “the system worked.” The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission [...] Anne Northup is a Republican commissioner on the Consumer Product Safety Commission who represented Louisville, Kentucy in Congress from 1997-2006. In her column today in the Wall St. Journal she describes the great harm caused by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. It is because of the CPSIA that I call the Consumer Product Safety Commission [...] New Flexibility Granted on Component Parts Testing Policy for Lead December 18, 2009 – Release # 10-083 The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) voted unanimously (5-0) to extend a stay of enforcement on testing and certification of many regulated children’s products. While enforcement of specific CPSC testing requirements has been stayed, the products must [...] 9news.com: “It’s a law that aims at protecting children and consumers from lead poisoning in toys, clothes and other everyday items. However, it comes at a steep price for the city’s only toy library. ‘We’ve collected a lot of toys over the years, 500 toys,’ said Kristel Deckx, a volunteer with the Denver [...] The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission today announced a voluntary recall by the manufacturer of ultra dangerous children’s classic scuffproof boots. The logo stamped onto the children’s boot’s insoles contains excessive levels of lead, violating the federal lead paint standard. Incidents/Injuries: None reported. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the sale of a highly dangerous toy truck imported from China because it’s surface coating contains high levels of lead. This recall involves “Super Rig Transport” toy truck with trailer and vehicles. The truck and trailer are multi-colored, holding two vehicles and two action figures. “Super Rigs Play Set” [...] Washington Post: “Mr. Squiggles is in the clear. The Consumer Product Safety Commission confirmed Monday that the holiday season’s runaway hit toy, Zhu Zhu Pets, does not exceed federal standards for toxic chemicals.” You can sleep better tonight knowing that the Toy Police, aka the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, is recalling children’s pendants because of too much lead content. “The recalled children’s pendants contain high levels of lead. Lead is toxic if ingested by young children and can cause adverse health effects. Incidents/Injuries: None [...] At a Town Hall meeting held in New York City, Consumer Product Safety Commission Chairman Inez Tenenbaum was joined by parents and consumers to talk toy safety. The discussion centered around new federal safety rules that are in place for toys that will give American consumers greater confidence when they go shopping [...] On November 5, 2009, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a voluntary recall of Young Artist Easels made by MacPherson’s of Emeryville, California, because the chalkboard surface coating contains high levels of lead, which violates the federal lead paint standard. The CPS’s announcement notes that Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately [...] More evidence that we are being controlled by mentally deficient idiots. Based on the 2008 law called the Consumer Product Safety Information Act, the U.S. government on November 4, 2009, banned all products intended for children under 13 that contain brass unless the product passes a prohibitively expensive test that shows the [...] Wall St. Journal: “The wheels on the bus won’t go ’round and ’round in many playrooms this year if the Consumer Product Safety Commission has its way. On Wednesday, the Commission voted against a petition to exempt small pieces of brass used in the wheels on toy cars, tractors and buses from draconian [...] Overlawyered: “The piece appears in the business section of the Times today, and it’s a perfectly good one as far as it goes. It starts off with a wooden toy maker in Ogunquit, Maine, who estimates that it would cost him $30,000 to secure testing for the 80 items he makes, using such [...] |
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