A light at the end of the tunnel? Perhaps!

Perhaps there is some hope yet for those dummies with the CPSIA committee. 

According to the L.A. Times, some revisions have been made to exclude wool, cotton,  and other natural products. 

You can read the entire article here:

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lead7-2009jan07,0,6917858.story

Keep contacting them and perhaps we can limit this act to products that might actually contain lead!  🙂

And more on CPSIA….

Here is yet another link on this Act…you will LOVE this one…I wonder..do you think it will cross bounds and include things like rosaries and church bazaars?  Can they tell you that religious items and functions are illegal??  I’ll have to call and ask them…and let you know!!!  🙂

Check out this site:

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c110:6:./temp/~c110iDnnre:e74348:

I particularly like this comment:

“(4) the efforts of the Commission to reach and educate retailers of second-hand products and informal sellers, such as thrift shops and yard sales, concerning consumer product safety rules and product recalls, especially those relating to durable nursery products, in order to prevent the resale of any products that have been recalled, including the development of educational materials for distribution not later than 1 year after the date of enactment of this Act.”

Hmmmmm…….makes you think doesn’t it?  Reckon there would be a swat team that would show up at my next yard sale and confiscate all the children’s used clothing and toys?  What about those women’s size 8 shoes that my 12 yr old daughter has outgrown?  After all, they were for a 12 yr old…

More Info on CPSIA

I have gathered some more info on the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act.  I’ve included a link to some Documents here:

http://www.cpsc.gov/library/foia/advisory/322.pdf

I’d like to include some quotes from these documents here:

“The Commission is aware of the potentially signigicant economic impact that the new act could have on any remaining inventory next Feb.  However, Congress stated that children’s products that did not meet the new lead limits would be treated as “a banned hazardous substance” under the Federal Hazardous Substances Act as of February 10, 2009, and made it unlawful “to sell, offer for sale, manufacture for sale, distribute in commerce, or import into the United States” any banned hazardous substance.”

***Sadly, this includes those items your children received for Christmas this year, those toys and clothes that your children have outgrown, those boutique style clothes you love to buy, those thrift stores you frequent and so much more!**

“At the outset, the Commission’s opinion affects all products primarily intended for use by children under 12 years of age–literally hundreds of millions or more units in inventory and billions of dollars in value. ”

**Oh gee…ya think????!!!***********

I don’t know what the government was thinking..other than it could play big brother, but we simply CANNOT let this stand! 

Contact your local newspapers, your congress members, local news departments, blog about it, scream it from the rooftops!  Let our voices be heard! 

Tell the government to not take away our freedoms..but rather to stop importing the poisons from overseas…that will stop the biggest majority of the lead issues…mainly from China.  That country is going to destroy us if we aren’t careful…if they haven’t already!