consumer product safety improvement act

If you haven't been keeping up with the craziness that is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, you can get up to speed here. It reads like something that should be an April Fool's Day joke but it isn't. Today a rally featuring dozens of speakers is going on in DC to try and bring [...]

After numerous phone calls and emails to vendors we have come to the conclusion that most either don't care about compliance because not enough retailers are pressuring them or that they think they are exempt from the law. To date, we have received certification letters from seven vendors out of over 100 that we deal [...]

Dear (Catholic store owner), Thank you for contacting me in favor of reforming the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). I appreciate hearing from you on this important issue, and I agree with you. You may be pleased to know that I am an original cosponsor of a bill that would reform the Consumer Product [...]

Pretend for a second that the CPSIA law doesn't really say what it says. Then pretend that there aren't "safety" advocates out there just looking for blood in the water. Then pretend that these people won't be contacting your local attorney general or the Consumer Product Safety Commission on their anonymous tip line. Got it? [...]