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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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 [...]

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 [...]

Hearing about recalls on the news certainly is scary.  No one wants to find that their child’s favorite toy is making them sick.  However, there are many facts about the recalls that didn’t make it onto the news.
First, the recalls were voluntary.  That means that as soon as the company found out there was lead [...]

Of course, no one wants children to be harmed.  Consumer safety laws make it so that parents can be confident their children won’t be poisoned by their toys.
However, the biggest lead threat to children has NEVER been toys, apparel, books, or any of the other products affected by CPSIA.  70% of all lead poisoning cases [...]