What is the CPSIA?

If you are concerned about the safety of an item, it is best to refer to the CPSC recall list.
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While there hasn’t been a large level of mainstream media coverage, there is a fair amount of video clips from the various hearings and other relevant events. To view a compilation of CPSIA-related videos, please click here.
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The law, as written, has not “postponed” because it has been neither changed nor appealed although there have been numerous appeals to Congress to do so.
What did happen is that a stay of enforcement was issued for the testing and certification requirements for certain products (not all products) until February 10, 2010.
What this means is [...]

CPSIA applies to all children’s products, regardless of where they are manufactured.

No law can guarantee anyone’s safety.  Even if followed to the letter in good faith by all manufacturers, however, CPSIA cannot guarantee that all products on the market will meet its standards, let alone that children will not find ingenious ways to hurt themselves with their toys.
Even if followed in good faith, violative products will [...]

The Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) became a law last year. At the beginning of this year, several members of Congress recognized that this law has far too many unintended consequences and therefore needed to be amended.
To fix many of the problems the law has caused, Senator Jim DeMint (SC) proposed S. [...]