Activism: CPSC
Posted: November 23rd, 2008 | Author: kathleen | Filed under: Act Now | 8 Comments »Proposed will be effective ways to work productively with the CPSC to develop and implement guidelines to everyone’s benefit.
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Please consider NOT passing this law.
I am all for lead free toys.
That’s why I make my toys with NOTHING that would harm a child.
Why would I use something that is harmful when I’m making toys? I’m making them! It would harm me too!
Why don’t we target the companies that are doing this shady business in China? Why punish everyone that is doing it the right way?
Get on the back of the people who messed this all up in the first place.
To think that kids won’t have a handmade toy option makes me very sick inside and sad to live in this country. Or even a handmade hat, blanket, ANYTHING.
And the few toys and things we can buy are going to go way up in price.
It’s just like when the Burgermeister Meisterburger outlawed toys in Santa Claus is coming to town, the old claymation movie. It scared me so much as a child to think that the toys Santa made were illegal, but to think that this can really happen in February of this year scares me even more.
Hi-I am writing this letter in regards to the recent lead law-CPSIA passed back in August. As of Feb 10th all children’s products intended for under the age of 12 has to be tested for lead-this includes clothing. The cost for the lead testing will range in the $1000 or more. I am a reseller of children’s clothing & I will lose my entire inventory after the 10th. I will lose my business as well. A group of children’s clothing resellers have tried contacting the Federal Government & Congress regarding this new law without much success. Media hasn’t really reported on this new law. CPSIA is vague and hard to understand. There are numerous retailers who are not aware of the it. However, CPSIA will greatly impact all retailers (new & thrifty) and businesses at a national level. This law will force a lot of small retailers/businesses to close their doors and declare bankruptcy. The impact on the environment will also greatly be affected because all children’s items will have to be thrown away. I am requesting that you please report on this law and the impact it will have on people & the environment.
Thank you-Tammy Rosenfeld
Low income families like mine DEPEND on consignment shops to cloth our children. If you enforce this law, hundreds of thousands of people will be affected. Not just the small business owners, but parents as well. Michigan’s economy is bad enough as it is…this will only make it FAR worse!
I am a small children’s wear manufacturer. I started my children’s wear manufacturing business from my home. If these regulations had been in place at the time, I would never have been able to start my own business. I have now been in business 25 years. I have over 300,000.00 in inventory. There is no way that I can comply with testing. I have too many small lots of different styles. I also have an internet store that we use to sell over runs of our goods. This law will bankrupt me and all I have worked for all my life will be destroyed by senators and congressmen who know nothing about the clothing business. I am 60 years old. It is too late for me to start over. You are going after the bad people who try to harm our children but you are punishing those of us who are trying to provide a good product for your children. I understand that companies with fewer than 20 employees contribute over 900 million dollars annually to the economy and comprise 68% of total apparel manufacturing in the United States. Someone in your organization needs to do some strong reconsideration in this matter.
I’m the head of a small publishing company, with over 85% of our books, children’s books.
The business will disappear, over $40,000 books destroyed, and I will go bankrupt if this law isn’t changed.
I’m over 65 and have no hope of any kind of government bailout.
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You cannot be serious?!?
If this bill passes my wife will be out of a job!
In this day and time this bill is the WORST idea yet! We cannot afford for this to pass and America cannot afford this.
It needs to be rethought and redone completely. There’s no need to punish small business owners in America for the mistakes of over seas companies!