File puptcrit/puptcrit.0812, message 364


From: Michael Dowell <moodooguru-AT-gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:55:19 -0800
To: puptcrit-AT-puptcrit.org
Subject: Re: [Puptcrit] "new" rules for the CPSIA legislation


Here is the link to sign the petition. It makes a lot of sense!

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/handmadetoys/


On Dec 16, 2008, at 4:40 PM, Lucky Stradley wrote:

> Here are some links that y'all might want to look at.
> http://www.change.org:80/ideas/view/ 
> save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia?full_thread=true
>
> http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia
>
> http://www.fashion-incubator.com/phpbb/viewforum.php?f=32
>
> http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/how-you-can-help/
>
> http://www.cpsc.gov/about/cpsia/legislation.html
>
> Many Etsy artists and craftspeople have expressed fears that they  
> won't be
> able stay in business due to the burdensome cost of testing and
> certification
> pursuant to the proposed legislation. Understandably, this is am  
> issue of
> great community concern:
>
> http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5949146
> http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5948588
> http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5950128
> http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5935591
> http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=5939104
>
> Here is an email that I received on this subject"
> "Save the USA from the CPSIA
>
> In 2007, large toy manufacturers who outsource their production to
> China and other developing countries violated the public's trust. They
> were selling toys with dangerously high lead content, toys with unsafe
> small part, toys with improperly secured and easily swallowed small
> magnets, and toys made from chemicals that made kids sick. Almost
> every problem toy in 2007 was made in China.
>
> The United States Congress rightly recognized that the Consumer
> Products Safety Commission (CPSC) lacked the authority and staffing to
> prevent dangerous toys from being imported into the US. So it passed
> the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) in August, 2008.
> Among other things, the CPSIA bans lead and phthalates in toys,
> mandates third-party testing and certification for all toys and
> requires toy makers to permanently label each toy with a date and
> batch number.
>
> All of these changes will be fairly easy for large, multinational toy
> manufacturers to comply with. Large manufacturers who make thousands
> of units of each toy have very little incremental cost to pay for
> testing and update their molds to include batch labels.
>
> For small American, Canadian, and European toymakers, however, the
> costs of mandatroy testing will likely drive them out of business.
>
> * A toymaker, for example, who makes wooden cars in his garage in
> Maine to supplement his income cannot afford the $4,000 fee per toy
> that testing labs are charging to assure compliance with the CPSIA.
>
> * A work at home mom in Minnesota who makes dolls to sell at craft
> fairs must choose either to violate the law or cease operations.
>
> * A small toy retailer in Vermont who imports wooden toys from Europe,
> which has long had stringent toy safety standards, must now pay for
> testing on every toy they import.
>
> * And even the handful of larger toy makers who still employ workers
> in the United States face increased costs to comply with the CPSIA,
> even though American-made toys had nothing to do with the toy safety
> problems of 2007.
>
> The CPSIA simply forgot to exclude the class of toys that have earned
> and kept the public's trust: Toys made in the US, Canada, and Europe.
> The result, unless the law is modified, is that handmade toys will no
> longer be legal in the US.
>
> If this law had been applied to the food industry, every farmers
> market in the country would be forced to close while Kraft and Dole
> prospered.
>
> How You can Help:
> Please write to your United States Congress Person and Senator to
> request changes in the CPSIA to save handmade toys. Use our sample
> letter or write your own. You can find your Congress Person here and
> Senator here.
>
> Thank you so much! "
>
> Lucky Stradley
> Hubbell, Nebraska
>
> lrc-AT-gpcom.net
>
> http://luckystradley.blogspot.com/
> ~~last update 11/2/2008~~
>
> http://www.picturetrail.com/13luckyme
> ~~picture trail last updated 6/9/2006~~
>
> http://community.webshots.com/user/beenlucky
> I am trying this site out for listing pictures.
> ~~last update 7/13/2006~~
>
> Always Lucky...well most of the time!
>
>
>
>
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