Just wrote a letter to Inez Tenebaum. Will mail it snail mail. This is so unjust. How does this keep children safe? I also talked about how a child is surrounded by items that are not made specifically for children. These very often wind up in their mouth. So even though the government tries to eliminate untested items, children are still surrounded by untested items that they will put into their mouth.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toni_s/3102591109/ This photo is more relevant than ever. I feel like doing the Country Joe McDonald shout out from the 60's aimed directly at the idiocy of laws aimed at the underdog by jerks kissing the feet of Big Dumb Business. Can you spell B-O-Y-C-O-T-T ? Now that's out of the way I really do feel better.
Yay! I am sooooo happy to have spent so many months making such beautiful baby dresses last year, and early this year, to take them completely out of my shop for good,,,,Wow, Go Matel!
Where's my barf bag? I can't believe this is the way it's going to be... I wrote my contacts at my Congressman's office; I hope something can be done about this!
I sure hope something will be done too. Last Feb many, many people called and wrote letters to their congress people as well as congress people of other states and wrote and called the CPSC and they enacted a stay on the testing on most things until this coming Feb. I don't know what else we can do except see a change at the voting poles. I am not against the law, but believe it is vitally important to allow component testing. Now we are finding out the quite a few large businesses are being exempted from third party testing. Those appear to be the ones who this law was supposed to be originally "directed" at. Here we are, unintended consequences.
Doesnt' suprise me, Mattel has only been around for what 'years'. Hmm kinda mind boggling that are large company doens't need to test, but small etsian companies have to chose legal or not. I am lucky, I don't market to children, at least I don't think my items appeal and I am also in Canada, I really do feel for everyone who has to comply.
Reminds me of the meat industry. A friend of mine who teaches Political Science recently pointed out to me that they mostly do their own testing. If they get a positive test for e-coli they just retest until they get a negative one. So much about having in-house testing units...
What chaps my hide is that if all this "third party testing" had been going on, then all these recalls would not have been needed in the first place. I'm going to ask them for their lawyers name if I get hauled into court for something.
jewelrydesignsbyME said: patspotpourri says: It does seem a bit 'off' somehow. However, it seems most of Fisher Price's products are now plastic (as opposed to the wood/metal that were painted in bygone years)...so it's doubtful that as least this part of Mattel would have a lead problem. ________________________________________________________ Unfortunately the majority items recalled in 2007 where because the pigment in the plastic contained lead. So there is great doubt that even plastic is safe atleast as far as lead concerned. As for Mattel and all doing their own in house testing, they were doing the testing inhouse in 2007 as well and the USA still received over 7 million of these tainted products from the various companies before the inhouse labs reported to the CPSC that the lead levels maybe high and that the products should be recalled. So what is the difference now? You still have the same labs that did the faulting initial testing and day late reporting in the first place now purportedly doing the testing of their own companies' products at the more stringent levels. Does the govenment really think our memories are that short that we could forget what precipitated this law to begin with. __________
Oh dear. I stand corrected; I had no idea the law had gotten this ridiculous. :(
