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New Safety Standards in Effect for Kids Toys

The Consumer Product Safety Commission revealed that Kid’s items must meet new safety standards despite when the item was manufactured. Every single product that is marketed and targeted to children must meet these standards by February 10th 2009. This new standard is going to cost a lot of money in manufacturing revisions, and rightfully so. The CPSC is allowing businesses to sell the rest of their remaining stock of children’s products until the February 10th deadline. After the deadline hits, any product that does not comply with the new safety standards will not be allowed to be sold on the market. This regulation also applies to children’s products that are exported as well; therefore it is imperative for these manufacturing companies to make the revisions as soon as possible. For any product that does not comply will be utterly useless.

One of the main reasons for the new safety standard is to regulate the amount of lead associated with children’s products, which came effective on August 14th of this year. “The law stipulates that by Feb. 10, children's products can not have a total lead content above 600 parts per million. Six months later, that limit drops to 300 ppm and then to 100 ppm in three years if feasible.” The CPSC is helping manufacturers to determine how to regulate the amount of leads, which products are okay and which are not, and what to do with remaining products that do not meet the new standards. Many manufacturers and producers of children’s were taken off guard when the CPSC issued that these safety regulations would be applied to those products targeted to children up to age 12. Many manufacturers have already produced products to be sold in 2009, so therefore they may be stuck with a surplus amount of useless inventory.

The CPSC’s decision to make the new safety standards in effect after the holiday season was debated thoroughly. Although the CPSC would have liked children’s products for the holiday season to set with under the new safety standards, they knew it was just not realistic. Therefore they are treating this holiday season with caution, and urging parents to be careful what they buy their children. For many children’s products that are going to be bought during the upcoming holiday season are probably not going to be manufactured under the new safety standards that are going to be taken place in February. However, these new standards may be coming at a bad time for this is bound to negatively effect the state of the economy. With major investment banks filing for bankruptcy every week, these new regulations are not going to help the U.S’s financial situation.

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