Quesion on CPSIA

[Former_Member]

I'm sorry to say, I have not been following this up to this point, but yesterday I started reading up on it. I have a few questions and I apologize if they have already been covered.. I bought many Christmas gifts for 4 children on here and it felt so good knowing I was buying handmade things for them vs. items imported from China.
1) Who and how is somebody going to regulate what is considered a product for a 13 year old vs a 12 year old?
For example, some sellers sell things like felt animals on here - I collect them and I"m in my 30's. My sister also buys them for her 10 year old?
2) People have been making and selling items for babies and kids for years and years and years at places like your local church craft show. So nobody can now sell baby quilts at a craft show? Who is going to regulate that? I find it hard to believe a 70 year old grandmother who does it for fun is going to get the message.

I sell handmade notebooks in my shop - again, they can be for a 8 year old or an 80 year old - do I have to shut down because of the potential that one is bought for an 8 year old?

[Former_Member]

I guess I am going to have to buy a chemistry set and some instructions to make a quilt from textiles of unknown origins if I want to sell it. That just plain B*#@s.

[MidnightCreations]

I am NO expert but if the government deems it is intended or could be intended for a child under 12 it is covered by the law.

Another example, art dolls, many make these and sell them for hundreds of dollars these too are covered by the law.

Yes, grandma would be violating this law along with all mom-to-mom sales, garage sales, charity donations.

Plain and simple if a child under 12 could use it, it could be covered.

The law is VERY broad and sweeping and assumes all are guilty without the testing.

This is one of the best articles and sums it pretty good.

http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2009/01/16/cpsia-safety-toys-oped-cx_wo_0116olson.html

[Former_Member]

Thank you for the response. I've been on the CPSIA website all morning reading up on this.

[Former_Member]

thx clanne for this post i just started reading up on this as well

[LaurieRyan]

that is why we are fighting so hard to get this stupid law repealed as it is so broad that it bans too many things that don't need to be banned

[ManicMuffinTotes]

I wonder if they are going to make car manufactures test seat belts. Because my youngest daughter always chewed on them. (maybe that is why she is ADHD, toxic seat belts) That is one more cost the Car Industry doesn't need.

[Former_Member]

I am thinking of opening a store of decorative items for a baby's room... if it is decorative and not intended to be played with, does it fall under this new law? This is driving me CRAZY!

[Former_Member]

LaBrocanterie, from what I understand it does fall under this law.

[Former_Member]

The article posted above by midnight is really informative and will give you a good quick overview of this law.

[Former_Member]

ManicMuffinTotes .... selt belts are car parts and are regulated under the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The also regulate infant, toddler, and children's booster seats. So those manufacturers don't have to use the CPSIA testing requirements or certifications. But someone that makes a cloth cover (to sell or even donate to charity) to protect a child from the hot or frozen metal buckle of a seat belt or car seat would have to go and have each individual "batch" lead tested under the CPSIA. The same would go for headrolls and and other add-on product for carseats.

[Former_Member]

LaBrocanteire: I would suggest going to the website below and asking your question about decorative items:

http://www.cpsc.gov/

[Former_Member]

off the topic here but heck a 12 yr old can have a baby and they are concerned about this? ages 12 and under?
crazeeee sh&86T

[birdylegs]

How many people have died from the salmonella outbreak related to Georgia peanuts this month? Why don't food producers have to test every batch of food before they sell it? This one outbreak has killed more people than I have ever read of being poisoned by handmade children's products.

[Former_Member]

im with you justpractical!!

[Former_Member]

Birdylegs:
Yeah. Next thing we know, children 12 and under wont be able to eat anything with nuts in it. Lets ban everyone because a few dumb butt companies decided to poison our kids because they wanted to pay 12 cents an hour labor in China. Government officials are so darned screwed up in there thinking. Do they even read before they sign. I mean. We pay them a heck of a lot every year. You'd think they could at least read.

[Former_Member]

Sure, they read--the # of zeros on the checks being handed to them by the lobbiests behind the bills they're signing!

[Former_Member]

clanne: what it looks like to me is that if it's plush and "cute" it can be classified as "for kids"... despite, for example, that my plushies are almost exclusively bought by teens and adults FOR THEMSELVES. Only a tiny minority of my plush have ended up in the hands of the under 12's.

[Former_Member]

clanne: what it looks like to me is that if it's plush and "cute" it can be classified as "for kids"... despite, for example, that my plushies are almost exclusively bought by teens and adults FOR THEMSELVES. Only a tiny minority of my plush have ended up in the hands of the under 12's.
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And that is what I don't understand, how they are going to regulate that. I mean obviously a bib is made for a baby, but not all plush animals are..
Also - does this mean people can't sell used toys at garage sales anymore?