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from coolmompicks.com

Breaking news - CPSIA delayed! Your amazing efforts made a difference

According to today's most excellent release from the Consumer Products Safety Commission, the CPSC has done the only common sense thing it could have done, and granted a one year stay of testing and certification requirements until February 10, 2010 Which means...

whoo!

Commissioner Nancy Nord in her letter to congress calls it "a time-out." Which is exactly the right thing to do.

To quote the CPSC statement:

Manufacturers and importers large and small of children's products will not need to test or certify to these new requirements, but will need to meet the lead and phthalates limits... 

The stay of enforcement provides some temporary, limited relief to the crafters, children's garment manufacturers and toy makers who had been subject to the testing and certification required under the CPSIA. These businesses will not need to issue certificates based on testing of their products until additional decisions are issued by the Commission. However, all businesses, including, but not limited to, handmade toy and apparel makers, crafters and home-based small businesses, must still be sure that their products conform to all safety standards

The stay...does not address thrift and second hand stores and small retailers because they are not required to test and certify products under the CPSIA.

It's all we've ever really wanted - to protect our kids from lead and other toxins, while being mindful of the good guys who were never a threat in the first place. 

Your emails, calls, and support have been invaluable to so many small businesses. And to us. 

Thank you.