What is the CPSIA?

Reporting a product that you know is in violation of the CPSIA is required if you are a manufacturer, distributor, or retailer of said product. If you are an employee of a company that you know is selling non-compliant products, there are whistleblower protections.
Here is an explanation that will shed more light from a legal [...]

Lead testing for CPSIA can be done in different ways, depending on what kind of material is being tested and how much lead is in it.  CPSC is still in the process of defining how tests are to be done on various types of materials, so you will want to check the latest information on [...]

Before 1985, book printers were permitted to use lead in ink.  Some books printed before 1985 therefore might contain lead in the ink (although most do not).  Because CPSIA’s requirements apply to any children’s item regardless of its date of manufacture, it is now illegal to distribute used children’s books published before 1985 unless it [...]

Before 1985, book printers were permitted to use lead in ink.  Some books printed before 1985 therefore might contain lead in the ink (although most do not).  Because CPSIA’s requirements apply to the sale of any children’s item regardless of its date of manufacture, it is now illegal to sell used books unless it can [...]

To the best of anyone’s knowledge, no child has ever been poisoned by lead in a book.  First, in order to absorb the lead from the book, the child would have to eat the book.  Second, because the quantities of lead in a book are so small, the child would have to [...]

While CPSIA does not require that books be destroyed specifically by burning, it leaves few viable options other than the destruction of books published before 1985 (all inks used in post-1985 publishing are known to be lead-free).  Because CPSIA-required testing destroys the book being tested, it is impossible for libraries and used book sellers to [...]