Thought members of this Team might be interested in this report as well as learning about the Handmade Toy Alliance. I received this email as a member of the organization (in full disclosure I am also on the board). Please feel to contact me if you have questions or comments.
"Today the HTA has released a report on the CPSIA + 5 Years. You can find the document on the Handmade Toy Alliance web site (Announcement on bottom of page)
http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org or download a PDF copy here -
http://handmadetoyalliance.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=uVYSR-CTOiI%3d&tabid=164&portalid=0&mid=476... The report details the journey we have been on over the last five years and also the solutions that are still needed.
Please consider sending a copy to your representative and senators in Washington with a personal letter that details any struggles you still experience. Randall Hertzler from the board of directors will be in Washington DC next week to present the document and discuss the issues we still face, both on Capitol Hill and with the CPSC."
For those that aren't familiar with the Handmade Toy Alliance and aren't members, I hope you will consider joining and supporting the HTA efforts to improve the CPSIA for handmade and small batch manufacturers --- The Handmade Toy Alliance (
http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org ) is a small trade association of The Handmade Toy Alliance represents small-batch toymakers, children’s product manufacturers, specialty importers, and independent retailers from across the US who build and support a marketplace full of unique, high quality, and above all else, safe goods for the juvenile products industry. We are a diverse a group as you might imagine. Some of our members offer American made-goods; some offer hand-made, one of a kind goods; some of our members specialize in fairly traded goods. From the stay at home parent to the importer of specialty wooden toys from Europe, all of our members champion high quality products for your children and for theirs.
Lynn Terra Experience
