Trust me, lawyers are combing this trying to find a way out for good businesses making safe products, but Congress didn’t leave one.

CPSIA hurts businesses, it hurts families, and–saddest of all–it hurts kids.

Details here: http://organicbabyfarm.blogspot.com/2009/03/looking-for-debate-participants.html

I wonder what other groups he is targeting. I am sure we aren’t the first.

In the meantime, I thought of a new use for our bibs so our cotton bibs don’t have to be tested for phthalates, Baby Capes!

It’s interesting that you would ask Kathleen for such a favor, given that a number of people have commented (correction: *attempted to comment*) on prior posts on your blog, only to have been ignored by virtue of their comments being left in the moderation queue (or deleted).

When level-headed comments are treated as such, it’s hard not to look at the blog as irrelevant and just another political blunderbuss that can be ignored.

Obviously, that goes counter to what blogs are about – discussion – and more importantly, it doesnt solve the problem we’re all trying to address: making the CPSIA scalable regardless of the size of the enterprise that it affects.

I see that you actually approved 2 comments today. Keep it up. Discussion is good when it goes both directions.

They exempted inventory, Congress had a fit, NRDC and Public Citizen sued, and they lost.

Waxman wrote them a letter peremptorily suggesting that they would NOT, OF COURSE, exempt books with metal parts (staples, ring binding), buttons, zippers, or snaps.

They cannot issue exemptions based on risk assessment- a common sense approach CONGRESS forbade in the bill. It doesn’t matter if nobody has ever been poisoned by lead ink in a book- they cannot issue exemptions by broad categories, and Congress agrees with them.
They cannot issue exemptions for mini-bikes because of lead in the tire stem valves, because of the way Congress wrote the law.

I think you know this, you just don’t care.