New Law Will Not Affect Resellers of Children’s Products

January 9, 2009 · Print This Article

In February 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) goes into effect, regulating the levels of lead and phthalates in children’s products, including clothing and toys. There has been much concern by that bill, mainly concerning the sale of secondhand children’s clothing and handmade toys. Yesterday, the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) issued a statement clarifying the law regarding secondhand items.

The law requires that children’s products manufactured after February 10th meet the safety standards. According to the CPSC, sellers of used children’s products, including toys and clothing, are not due to produce certain that the products meet the new safety standards. However, the CPSC is urging

resellers to be aware of recalled children’s products, including cribs, playards, toys that are likely to contain lead such as children’s jewelry or painted toys and flimsily-made toys.

This is good news for resellers and for parents who obtain clothing via secondhand stores and sellers. One poor side effect of that interpretation is that conventional stores are allowed to continue to sell children’s products that do not meet the new standards, as distant as they were manufactured before February 10, 2009.

New Law Will Not Affect Resellers of Children’s Products originally arised on Green Daily on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:30:00 EST

[Source] Patricia Mayville-Cox

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