You are right about the labeling for garments. Everyone should be following those laws, and properly labeling their garments. Adding the additional information to a label may be that burdensome, keeping track of all the exact components in each item is.
If I use 5/6 spools of thread, quite possibly purchased at different times, therefore different batches, I have to keep all the info off each spool, and a sample of each thread.
Same with buttons, I'm looking at 3 cards of buttons that look exactly the same, but one can tell by the cards that they were from 3 different batches. I'm going to have to keep a button from each card, along with the card. I need 9 buttons for the garment, each card has 3 buttons, therefore I'm going to have to buy 4 cards so that I can have a sample from each card. $$ more money spent. It'a not like I'm make 500 garments alike where I only need recordkeeping on 1 button out of 4500 that I purchased in bulk. I'm making 1 dress!
But, I can handle this, but where is the bow maker going to permanantly affix her label? And where on the little girl's bracelet is the label going to go? And what good is a label to the consumer if one needs a microscope to read the printing on the label to ascertain all the info to check against a recall list?
And currently, it seems, if we are making a good faith effort to label our items with the neccessary info, the CPSC will be happy, we think, and they think. But, and this is a big but, they haven't decided exactly what or how they want the labelling to be done. One commissioner wants there to be a stay so that they can set things in stone for all of us to follow, the other commissioner doesn't want a stay, we should just label however, and they will work it out later.
That's just great, so some order labels with numbers, wait 6-8 weeks for them to arrice. Some people order laser cut stamps they can use, and fill in the blanks, some people order something else. And along comes the new head of the CPSC, and the new commissioners, and they change their minds and issue new rules. All that money goes out the window, and no one can sell anything with the old labels. And if they decide we all have to have barcoded labels, we are dead.
I don't find all this rumors. I have been thru the act, the garment labeling act, and have every pdf that the cpsc has issued on this and read everyone of them. This law as written is just the tip of the iceberg that is comming out of washington. Most of them are now in the 900 page range of total drivel that no one has read, and no one has even begun to fill in the details. Everything is left to "figure out later".
