Nancy Pelosi's Child-Safety Law Leaves the CPSC to Clean Up. Libraries can keep books with lead-containing ink. By Liz Szabo, USA TODAY Librarians won't have to throw away their children's books after all on Tuesday, when a sweeping new product safety law takes effect.
The law, passed in August, dramatically cuts the amount of lead and other chemicals allowed in kids' products. That had librarians worried, because some books made before the 1980s had ink that contained lead. Today, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the federal agency in charge of enforcing the law, announced that it won't prosecute anyone for distributing "ordinary" children's books printed after 1985. These books have never been found to violate the new lead standards, which will mandate that kids' items contain no more than 600 parts per million beginning Tuesday. American Libraries - Children's Books Get One-Year Stay fro. Forging ahead despite the CPSIA. This week, a series of #CPSIA posts about what to do next and how to get the word out to other manufacturers, retailers, the media in your area and perhaps most importantly – to your elected officials.
If you want to forge ahead with your homemade products business despite CPSIA, then read on. If you don’t have any direct reason to care about dealing with the CPSIA (you should have an indirect reason to care), don’t worry – there are other posts this week that will help you with your business. Class Action Lawsuit. Update on Reselling Used Children’s Clothing.