CPSIA – Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act
Do you like to buy handcrafted children’s items? Many will disappear Feb 10, 2008.
New CPSIA (Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act) rules will require expensive redundant lead testing on all children product: books, clothes, toys, stationary, room decor, safety products etc. And this rule is retroactive to include products already made last year.
Small businesses and crafters will not be able to pay $100-4000 per item to be tested in order to keep selling. http://www.cpsc.gov/ABOUT/Cpsia/cpsia.HTML
This rule will affect products in schools, day care centers, libraries, Goodwill, resale stores, craftshows, garage sales, ebay and craigslist. It will be illegal to sell or distribute or store children’s product that contain over 600 ppm lead and those not tested.
They are calling Feb 10th national Bankruptcy day because of the number of small business that will be forced to close down. http://nationalbankruptcyday.com/
Please HELP us by calling some of the number listed below. Please ask them to repeal CPSIA before Feb 10, 2008
Why contact Waxman http://tinyurl.com/d2d7z3 His office will tell you to call CPSC.
CPSC will tell you to call him. He is the only one who can call a hearing now.
Please CALL, Write, and BLOG about this
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1. Call Rep. Waxman, ask them to postpone CPSIA deadlines! 202-225-4434. Tell them you know only he has the authority to call a hearing to make exceptions.
2. Call Nancy Nord of CPSC (301) 504-7901 – Ask for help and guidelines for your business under CPSIA. Ask why we retailers and businesses were notified last August since we are all registered with the state.
3. Call Chairman of Commerce Com. Senator John D. Rockefeller IV : (202) 224-6472 They are fighting for us. Ask for help for your business.
Printable CPSIA Action Kit
http://www.etsy.com/storque/media/bunker/2009/01/CPSIA-Etsy-Resources.pdf
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Additional contact you can make. Tell them how CPSIA will affect you, your business, your children, your school, day care center, church.
1. Write the White house about CPSIA http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/
2. Call Senate Commerce Committee 202-324-5115
3. Call Sen. Kerry Chairman of Small Business & Entrepreneurship (202)224-5175
4. Contact your Senator http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
5. Contact your Rep https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml
6. Contact the minority house commerce committee. 1-202-224-1251
7. Contact House Commerce & Energy Comm (PH) 202-225-2927
8. Contact Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s number in DC-(202) 225-4965.
9. Call your local paper and ask them to write and article on CPSIA and small business.
If we all make a few calls we can make a difference. Waxman’s office said this was not intended to cover small American businesses but it does. They said it was an unintended fall out of keeping kids safe from Chinese imports that came to the US with lead. However our American small business are the ones being hurt.
PLEASE HELP and do your part!
In the mean time if you are a business do not stop running your business. Both Waxman’s office and Rockefeller’s office told me over the phone that no fines will be coming any time soon for anyone. And when they do start enforcing this it will be the big companies first. They both expect changes and exemptions to come long before fines start being issued to anyone.
They both told me that if you are making and selling safe LEAD FREE items continue doing so. Get paperwork showing you looked at your components. Or get XRT test on first run. Or in some way show that you looked to make sure your products were safe. Then keep making and selling your safe products.
The CPSC past history shows they have rules to enforce and they do not have the man power or budget to enforce the ones they have now. They are looking only for the big blatant rule breakers that are hurting someone.
I have to beleive we have HOPE for change in CPSIA in the future. And I am doing my part to help fight for that change. How about you?
PS We just got XRT test results back. Our ID kits are CPSIA compliant!
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Date: January 26, 2009
