-New York Times: Consumer Agency to Post a Database of Unsafe Products

Canadian Business: In a bid to help small businesses, gov't delays lead content testing at approved labs

-Wall Street Journal: Small Crafts vs. Big Government

-Shopfloor: CPSIA Update: Clarity Still Lacking in Testing Requirements

-Washington Post: Consumer Product Safety Commission to launch public database of complaints

-The Handmade Toy Alliance (HTA): Handmade Toy Alliance to Testify at Senate Commerce Sub-Committee Oversight Hearing

-Washington Times: Bureaucrats way out of tune; Government imposes regulations on children's CDs and DVDs

-Shopfloor: CPSIA Update: Thankfully, Some Critics are Energized

-Wall Street Journal: Business Backlash Grows

-The New York Times: Toy Makers Fight for Exemption From Rules

-Industry Week: Fixing 'Unintended Consequences'

-USA Today: Lead testing can be costly for mom and pop toy shops

-CPSIA Testimony Presented at the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Hearing on April 29, 2010:

-Richard M. Woldenberg , Learning Resources, Inc.

-Steven Levy, Star Ride Kids

-Dan Marshall, Handmade Toy Alliance

-Jim Gibbons, President and Chief Executive Officer, Goodwill Industries International

-Rosario Palmieri, Vice President for Infrastructure, Legal, and Regulatory Policy, National Association of Manufacturers

-Paul Vitrano, General Counsel, Motorcycle Industry Council

-Rachel Weintraub, Director of Product Safety and Senior Counsel, Consumer Federation of America

-Textile World: Congress Considers Amending Consumer Product Safety Law

-The Hill: House proposes changes to lead law

-Wall Street Journal: Waxman's Lead Poison - A fix of a bad law that is no fix at all.

-CPSC: Report to Congress on the CPSIA, January 15, 2010

-The Washington Post: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from China

-The Washington Post: 'Citizen regulators' take toy safety testing into their own hands

-Wall Street Journal: There Is No Joy in Toyland; The overreach of a child-safety law is killing American jobs and businesses. It's not too late for some common-sense changes.

-CPSC: Commission Extends the Stay of Enforcement on Testing and Certification Requirements for Many Children's Products; New Flexibility Granted on Component Parts Testing Policy for Lead  

-CPSC: Video, Audio, and Presentations from CPSC Public Workshop: CPSIA Product Testing, December 10-11, 2009

-The Washington Times: Brass Attacks - Consumer 'Safety' Law Strikes Bad Notes

-The Hill: Manufacturers press Senate to hold hearing on child safety law

-Wall Street Journal: Congress's Brass Knuckles; Another casualty of the lead toy 'safety' law

-New York Times: Burden of Safety Law Imperils Small Toymakers  

-CPSC's Statement of Policy: Testing and Certification of Lead Content in Children's Products

-Textile World: Oeko-Tex Standard 100 Certification Meets CPSIA Lead Testing Requirements

-Daily Hickory Record: Center helps win regulatory exemptions for textiles

-U.S. Congress: Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Tex.) writes CPSIA letter to Reps. Waxman and Rush

-Wall Street Journal: A Destructive Toy Story Made in Washington

-Reuters: One Year Later, New Product Safety Law Still a Problem for Apparel Makers

-House Committee on Energy and Commerce: - Subcommitee CPSC Oversight Hearing

-Live PR: The Handmade Toy Alliance Reacts to Committee Hearing on the CPSIA

-Google News: Third-party safety tests not required for Mattel

-Industry Week Magazine: Unintended Consequences

-WWD: CPSC Rules on Lead Testing for Textiles

-CPSC: Statement of Chairman Inez M. Tenenbaum on Determinations Regarding Lead Content Limits on Certain Materials or Products, August 18, 2009

-CPSC: Statement of Commissioner Nancy Nord on the Final Rule for Determinations Regarding Lead Content Limits on Certain Materials or Products, August 19, 2009

-CPSC: Children's Products Containing Lead; Determinations Regarding Lead Content Limits on Certain Materials or Products, Final Rule (August 19, 2009)

-Roll Call: Paper Is the Right Choice for Clothes and Shoes - Marking One Year of the CPSIA

-Roll Call: Time to Fix the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act  

-Federal News Radio: New lead limits big concern for small businesses

-Wall Street Journal: Consumer Product Destruction; Congress's lead in toys panic is set to ruin more businesses.

-Roll Call: CPSC Chairwoman's Pledge for 'Common Sense' Approach to Be Tested

-The Hill: Rhinestone biz takes dim view of safety bill

-ShopFloor: CPSIA Update: Risk, Labels, Politics, Economic Harm

-The Providence Journal: Children can't wear rhinestones

-Forbes: Is The White House's Organic Garden Toxic To Kids?

-CPSC: Statement of Policy - Interpretation and Enforcement Of 'Tracking Labels' Requirements of the CPSIA, July 20, 2009

-CPSC: Ballot Vote on Request from the Fashion Jewelry Trade Association for Exclusion of Crystals and Glass Beads and other materials from Lead Content Limits, July 16, 2009

-The Washington Times: Lead in the head

-The Arizona Republic: Companies feel strain of complying with safety law

-The Washington Times: Lead-footed safety issues; A time to question regulatory excess

-Forbes: I Choose Risk

-AllBusiness: A Good Law's Bad Consequences for Small Businesses

-Roll Call: Small Businesses Are Being Hurt by New Toy Safety Law

-U.S Senate: Nomination hearing for Inez M. Tenenbaum, to be Chairman and Commissioner for the CPSC

-CNN Money: Toymakers fight complex new safety rules

-National Journal: Blowback on Lead Limits

-Snohomish Times: CPSC Settlement with Mattel and Fisher-Price

-Roll Call: New Toy Regulation Act to Further Protect Children

-Roll Call: Congress Should Return Toy Safety Regulation to the CPSC

-Reason Magazine: Dangerous Toys, Strange Bedfellows; Hipster moms and conservative congressmen join forces against the regulatory state.

-House Small Business Committee Hearing: Watch the Hearing Videos on You Tube

-House Small Business Committee Hearing: How the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Impacts Small Businesses

-CPSC: Request for Emergency Stay of Enforcement of Tracking Label Requirement (Record of Commission Action)

-Roll Call: Science Vs. Politics: the CPSIA's Impact on Child Safety

-The Hill: Consumer Safety - Toy Story 3: Emperor Uncle Sam Puts You Out of Business

-CPSC: Handbook for Resale Stores and Product Resellers

-ABC News: President Obama to Nominate SC Dem to Head Beleaguered CPSC

-Bloomberg: Obama Nominates Tenenbaum to Safety Commission, Boosts Budget

-Wall Street Journal: CPSC to Allow Youth ATV Sales

-CPSC: Stay of Enforcement of the Lead Content Limits for Certain Youth Motorized Recreational Vehicles, May 1, 2009

-Congressional Research Service: "CPSIA implementation is not going well"

-The National Law Journal: Consumer bill sets off a furor

-U.S. Senate: Senator Pryor Sends Letter, co-signed by 28 other Senators, to CPSC Acting Chairman Nancy Nord. Letter Says Commission has CPSIA Enforcement Discretion

-Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal-Sentinel: Lead law leaves small businesses in a lath

-Wall Street Journal: CPSC Won't Enforce Lead Laws on Youth ATVs

-CPSC: Statement of Acting Chairman Nancy Nord on the Request for ATV and Motorized Bike Exclusions from the Lead Content Limits of the CPSIA, April 3, 2009

-Wall Street Journal: Obama Urged to Fill Product-Safety Post as Complaints Mount

-CPSC: Nancy Nord Responds to Sen. Durbin's Letter

-U.S. Congress: Sen. Durbin Criticizes CPSC Chair for Comments on CPSIA

-U.S. Congress: Rep. Dingell sends letter to President Obama regarding the CPSIA.

-Wall Street Journal: Pelosi's Library Quarantine; The CPSC is left cleaning up the House Speaker's messy child-safety law.

-GLG News: Food Safety Reform - Can We Learn from Product Safety Reform?

-The Washington Post: Book Dealers Told to Get The Lead Out

-CPSC: Letter from Commissioner Moore to Representative John D. Dingell about the CPSIA implementation, March 20, 2009

-CPSC: Letter from Acting Chairman Nord to Representative John D. Dingell about the CPSIA implementation, March 20, 2009

-USA Today: Motorbike sale to defy lead law

-Townhall.com: An Interview With CPSC Chair Nancy Nord About The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act

-National Review: Between a Rock and a Barbie Dream House; Congress paves the road to hell with good intentions.

-Politico.com: Dems dragging feet on consumer bill

-The Hill: Congress, CPSC pointing fingers on toy safety bill

-U.S. Congress: Radanovich, Barton Renew Call for Hearing into Misfiring Consumer Protection Law  

 -U.S. Congress: Dingell Wants CPSC to Explain Problems with New Children's Product Safety Law

-Reuters: Gymboree shares down 40 pct on Q1 outlook; regulatory changes related to CPSIA will impact sales and gross margins in the first half of 2009.

-Wall Street Journal: Makers Are Pushing Back on Toxic-Toy Law

-Providence Business News: Lead ban threatening jewelry manufacturers

-Traffic World: CPSC Publishes Draft Product Testing Rule

-Rush Limbaugh: Where's the Lead Law Uproar?

-New York Times: Is That Fabulous New Toy Safe?

-Wall Street Journal: Retailers Urge Rollback of Children's Safety Law

-CPSC: Guidance on the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) for Small Businesses, Resellers, Crafters, and Charities

-CPSC: Commission Issues Guidance For Complying With Phthalates Requirements In New Child Safety Law

-CPSC: Commission Spells Out Enforcement Policy For New Lead Limits In Children's Products Effective February 10, 2009

-CPSC: Statement of Acting Chairman Nancy Nord re: Commission's Lead Limits Enforcement Policy

-Wall Street Journal: Toys for Congress - New lead rules hit next Tuesday. Whammo.

-CPSC: Commission Denies Stay Request of National Association of Manufacturers

-Journal of Commerce: CPSIA phthalates deadline upheld

-Journal of Commerce: Senate bill seeks delay of CPSIA

-Assoicated Press: Confusion Over Anti-Lead Law; CPSC Chief Blamed

-Forbes: The Regulatory Farce Under The CPSIA; Using a bazooka to kill a gnat.

-USA Today: Safety rules on lead in kids' products perplex and polarize

-Los Angeles Times: Clothing and toy makers make new push to delay lead rules

-ABC 7 New York: Controversy over new lead regulations

-Yahoo News: NYC protesters - Lead regulations will kill jobs

-BusinessWeek: When will regulation fit the size of business?

-Washington Post: Officials Delay New Toy-Testing Standards

-Los Angeles Times: Children's product sellers get 1-year reprieve on lead testing

-Publisher's Weekly: CPSC Delays Enforcement of CPSIA Testing Requirements for One Year

-Wall Street Journal: CPSC to Stay Some Product Testing Requirements

-Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Delayed law gives handmade sellers a break

-CPSC: Agency Grants One-Year Stay of Testing and Certification Requirements for Certain Products

-CPSC: Statement on One-Year Stay by Acting Chairman Nancy Nord

-CPSC: Statement on One-Year Stay by Commissioner Thomas H. Moore

-U.S. Senator Jim DeMint: Congress Must Keep Overreaching CPSIA from Harming Small Businesses, Families

-The Examiner: Washington toy story shows why regulation helps the big guys

-The Vancouver Voice: Dangerous safety laws

-Journal of Commerce Online: NAM asks CPSIA rules delay

-National Association of Manufacturers: Request for Emergency Stay of Effective Date re: CPSIA

-New York Post: How 'Child Safety' May Kill NYC Jobs

-Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act - Part III

-CPSC Public Meeting on Apparel, 1/22/09: Industry representatives discussed product testing programs and the results of testing for lead, and provided overviews of industry practices.

-Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act - Part II

-California Apparel News: CPSIA Ruling Goes Forward

-Bloomberg: Mattel, Wal-Mart Test Toys as Small Firms Struggle

-Providence Business News: New lead law worries jewelers

-January 21, 2009: A letter from Republican members of the Energy and Commerce Committee to Congressmen Waxman and Rush calling for CPSIA hearings

-NewsChannel 8: Portland small businesses question new lead testing law

-U.S. News & World Report: History Suggests That Overreaction Is Perhaps Most Dangerous

-PR.com: "Save Small Business from the CPSIA" Places in the Top Ten Ideas for Change on Change.org

-InjuryBoard.com: Mom-Based Garment Industry May Be Hardest Hit By New Safety Regs

-January 16, 2009: A Letter from Congress to the CPSC regarding implementation of CPSIA

-The Los Angeles Times: Children's clothing makers in a frenzy over lead testing

-Forbes: Scrap The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act

-Publisher's Weekly: The Very Latest on CPSIA and Books

-The New-Times: Don't touch that book!

-The Christian Science Monitor: Uncle Sam vs. your favorite toys; The Consumer Product Safety Information Act will crush the life out of children's product

-Wall Street Journal: Pelosi's Toy Story

-Business Week: Misinformation and the CPSIA

-Handmade Toy Alliance: A letter to the CPSC from Congressman Anthony Weiner of New York

-Digital Journal: Homecrafters head for Capitol Hill to object to lead-testing law

-WBIR: New children product safety laws trouble small businesses

-The Journal of Commerce Online: Customs Update - More on CPSIA requirements

-Los Angeles Times: Regulators rethink rules on testing children's clothing and toys for lead

-Consumer Affairs.com: Toymakers, Craftspeople Up in Arms Over New Safety Law

-The Fashion-Incubator: The National Association of Manufacturers has submitted its response to the CPSC's request for comments regarding the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA).

-The Christian Science Monitor: A new law hurts small toy stores and toymakers; New regulations banning harmful chemicals in all children's items has had unintended consequences for small businesses and crafters.

-Fibre2Fashion: Textile industry seeks CPSC clarification on new lead standard

-KVAL: Retailers worry new toy testing laws will put them out of busines

-WFCR: Consumer Safety Law Worries Toy Makers and Retailers

-Los Angeles Times: New safety rules for children's clothes have stores in a fit

-Poynter Online: Handmade Manufacturers Say New Regs Will Jeopardize Business

-The Washington Post: Toymakers Assail Costs of New Law

-Los Angeles Times: For some manufacturers, rules to protect kids may be toxic

-The Ann Arbor News: Law alarms toy companies

-The Grand Rapids Press: New safety law no fun for retailers

-Boston Herald: Small toy stores fear new U.S. regulations

-Flathead Beacon: Legislating Montana Small Businesses Out of Busines

-PR Newswire: Handmade Toy Alliance Decries CPSIA Legislation That Harms Small Toymakers

-The Patriot Ledger: New law to put thousands out of work

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