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• CPSIA bans trauma bears

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 516
  A police department which formerly distributed (free, not for sale) trauma bears to kids in crisis to help comfort them . Theyve switched to handing out books because of the CPSIA. Ive always said Waxman and the Naderite groups are pre-Whoville Grinches, and I hope theyre fully aware of just how much responsibility ...
  4 days ago

• We Interrupt The CPSIA Programming…

  
  The Adventures of Whimsical Walney — Authority: 112
  First and foremost: Happy Veteran’s Day. A big thank you to everyone who has fought and continues to fight for the freedoms I have. Judging from my posts, I imagine many think my life is all about CPSIA . Good news: It’s not. I’m excited to say that recently the creative juices started flowing again (albeit it ...
  4 days ago

• “BRIO? Indies? Toy Casualties Mount In CPSIA Trainwreck”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  The toy shelf gets barer. [ Daddy Types ] Related: Handmade Toy Alliance , Dan Marshall , Rick Woldenberg , Common Room . Tags: CPSIA , CPSIA and toys Related posts The New York Times finally reports on CPSIA (13) Pull over, sir, we’re checking those socks for lead (15) NPR on CPSIA: “Public ...
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• CPSIA updates 11/10/2009

  
  Fashion Incubator — Authority: 467
  Late last week, the CPSC released a draft for testing and certification requirements (pdf) under CPSIA. While the developments spelled out therein look promising, be advised this is a draft , not a formal ruling. If youd care to lend your support to the proposal (recommended), public comments are due by January ...
  4 days ago

• CPSIA and the Brass Banning

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 516
  Check Walter Olsons blog and follow his links . By a 3-2 vote, the CPSC has confirmed that the absurd and inflexible Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act bans the sale of children’s products which contain components of conventional (leaded) brass. The vote drew dissents from commissioners Anne Northup ( ...
  5 days ago

• CPSIA bans brass, BRIO,

  
  The Common Room — Authority: 516
  Greg Allen at Daddy Types writes : The CPSCs new lead and phthalates restrictions and testing requirements for childrens products kicked in earlier this year, and though some details are still to be decided, the contours of the new American toyscape are becoming clearer: giant toy companies manufacturing overseas ...
  6 days ago

• Lead with facts, not fiction regarding CPSIA

  
  The Adventures of Whimsical Walney — Authority: 112
  Ok, so the I’m a little late to the party when it comes to commenting on Chairmwoman Tenebaum’s editorial in the Product Safety Letter and a lot has happened since then: the Handmade Toy Alliance had a call with CPSC Commissioners and Staff, the New York Times actually reported on the CPSIA (more on that ...
  1 week ago

• CPSIA’s ban on brass

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  By a 3-2 vote, the CPSC has confirmed that the absurd and inflexible Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act bans the sale of children’s products which contain components of conventional (leaded) brass. The vote drew dissents from commissioners Anne Northup ( statement ) and Nancy Nord ( official comments , PDF; ...
  1 week ago

• CPSIA Uses The Wrong Words

  
  The Adventures of Whimsical Walney — Authority: 112
  It’s just the story I dreamed of hearing when creating the Use Your Words ™ t-shirt line: A child who was so enamored of his shirt, he wouldn’t take it off even after his mother pleaded to let her wash it. It was a simple concept: t-shirts meant to expand a child’s vocabulary in English, French, and Spanish ...
  1 week ago

• CPSIA Was Passed By Both Parties

  
  The Adventures of Whimsical Walney — Authority: 112
  Since closing Whimsical Walney, I have been busy with a variety of different projects unrelated to creating new offerings. I have just recently been able to get back into a creative mindset and I am very excited to have started working on some new ideas geared toward adults. Before launching these new products, ...
  1 week ago

• Making hair bows in west Michigan

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  A nice way to support a family, but it’s sure too bad about CPSIA . And a Columbus, Ohio stay-at-home mom trained as an artist is afraid the law’s testing costs will sink her small-batch online business making bibs, burp clothes, blankets and similar baby items. [ Business First of Columbus ] Tags: CPSIA , ...
  1 week ago

• tinytongs by Carys LLC

  
  UpscaleBaby.com — Authority: 142
  Invented by a mom who had three children under the age of five, tinytongs are an innovative, ergonomic, curved self-feeding utensil designed to grip food, especially smaller bites, and keep it in place in the utensil until it reaches a child’s mouth. Made from polypropylene and TPE over-molding, tinytongs are ...
  1 week ago

• Walter Olson notes that the NY Times finally reports the other side of CPSIA

  
  Shaw's Eco-Logic — Authority: 117
  Over at Overlawyered , pundit Walter Olson laces into the NY Times for not being "...a day late and a dollar short, but more like 300 days late and many billions of dollars in overlooked costs short. He goes on, "Still, lets be grateful: the papers news side has now implicitly rebuked the editorial sides ...
  1 week ago

• The New York Times finally reports on CPSIA

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  [ Bumped Monday a.m. for readers who missed it over the weekend ] The piece appears in the business section of Saturday’s Times , 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Better late than never? CPSIA

  
  Dewey's Treehouse — Authority: 134
  Overlawyered reports on a New York Times article.
  1 week ago

• What it means for a product to be “safe”

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  Don Boudreaux has some thoughts on that. [ Cafe Hayek ] Tags: CPSIA , product liability , safety Related posts Unhappy holidays for American toymakers? (7) Household hazard causes estimated 86,000 injuries/year (4) Efficiency and safety (9) Damned if you do, damned if you don’t files: toy ...
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• The New York Times finally reports on CPSIA

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  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 materials as maple, walnut oil and local ...
  2 weeks ago

• Big Government crushing small businesses

  
  For What It's Worth — Authority: 156
  The blogosphere, particularly Walter Olson’s Overlawyered.com , has been alive with stories of how the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is wiping out used book sellers, motorbike manufacturers and the like, but maybe the New York Times finally taking notice of the issue and profiling this small ...
  2 weeks ago

• Food safety law expansion barreling through Congress

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 643
  And per this L.A. Times account , business — at least business with an organized Washington, D.C. presence — is on board, just as it was when CPSIA passed. So what could go wrong? Tags: CPSIA , CPSIA and Congress , food safety , small business Related posts Welcome Wall Street Journal readers (5) ...
  3 weeks ago

• CPSIA - Help me get around this legislation so I can be in business again.

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 652
  CPSIA - Help me get around this legislation so I can be in business again. I started a small online business in January this year selling adorable plushies It was nothing big by any means, but it made me happier than anything. Since January, the US Consumer Product Safety Commission has passed this piece of work: ...
  3 weeks ago

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