On January 30, the Consumer Product Safety Commission took a half step back in its enforcement of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. Importers, domestic manufacturers and retailers felt they had an 11th-hour reprieve from a confusing law that threatened to put some companies out of business.
With less than two weeks to go before the deadline, commissioners voted to delay for one year enforcement of a section of the law that requires companies to certify that their products comply with the law's lead and phthalate standards, which must be backed up with laboratory tests.
For the trade industry, there was actually little to cheer. While companies are spared the paperwork burden, they still have to comply with the law's lead and phthalate limits for children's products. Beginning on February 11, an item with lead levels of greater than 600 parts per million or 0.1 percent of certain phthalates will become a banned hazardous product.
The full article can be found on page 24 in the February 9, 2009 edition of The Journal of Commerce.
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