Did anyone hear of the new law on testing infant to children toys and clothing?

[sunnycowgirl]

It was on the news tonight, goes into affect on Feb 10th, that any clothes and toys for infant to children, will have to be tested for lead, by a third party, which can cost around $25 to $100 a batch or item. This means ebay, homemade, garage sales, stores, anyone that sells or produces toys and clothing for kids, will have to be tested before

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[sherylb]

This is all over my friends list since I have at least 4 friends that either resell clothing and toys or make items to sell for children. It is a huge over-reaction by the government to "protect the children", when, in reality it is going to put lots of WAHMs, consignment stores and others that depend on making and selling or reselling items out of business. Plus it is going to cause millions of items currently in circulation to go into landfills and it is going to be a huge strain on people that rely on resell items to make ends meet financially as the current supply dries up. There are several places people can go to protest this.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia - Vote to bring this issue in front of President-Elect Obama and his administration before the inauguration.

http://www.rallycongress.com/make-second-hand-kids-clothes-legal-/1471/ - Sign a petition to go to your senator and representatives about this issue.

(Sorry, I just was posting about this on my FB account, so I had all of the info in front of me! It is a hot topic among my friends!)

[ladyleo]

Mind if I snag the info to pass along?

[sherylb]

Please do!

[ladyleo]

Passing it along everywhere I can put it.

[curbbrat]

thank you so much. i just forwarded this to everyone i have an email for.