So, apparently China, having been banned from using Lead in their exported toys, have switched to use Cadmium. Which apparently they’ve been using locally for a while, and it’s cheaper than lead. It’s also apparently more toxic (lead shows up as #2 in priority vs #7 on this list from the CDC, but it looks [...]
So, this is actually from August, I kept not finding a good citation for it; still can’t, so I’m taking what I can get. In August, the CPSC voted (UNANIMOUSLY?? 3-0? Do 3 people even get to count as unanimous?) to allow Mattel to do their own CPSIA product testing. This is after the CPSIA [...]
So, Tiffany at Electric Boogaloo has made a couple posts recently about the CPSIA as she reads up on it for her own shop … Today, she laments the fact that apparently something went terribly wrong with this legislative idea. .. CPSIA bad. Poisoned kids, bad. Worse, even. But how many kids get lead poisoning [...]
So, here’s a breakdown from Happy Panda who actually makes clothing and thus needs this research (whereas we’ve never made it reasonably past theoretical yet) CPSIA Testing Research & Price Breakdown
So, the big post about cpsia? Yeah, I posted that without “finishing” it, but now I can’t remember what else I wanted to add offhand :o I sent the form letter from Handmade Toy Alliance to all three critters, although I have my doubts that it will do anything because it’s a reactionary legislation and [...]
Last year, around this time actually I s’pose, was all the recalls and etc about toys made with high levels of lead. magic sand that turned into ghp when ingested. yadda yadda yadda. The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) was getting railed on because they weren’t catching most of these things, rather either the companies [...]