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Congress Gets ‘Time Out’ from Product Safety Folks

June 25th, 2009 · No Comments

Kids across the United States would be cheering if they paid any attention to the news coming out of the nation’s capitol.  “What news would they be cheering?” you ask.  Here it is:
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced a two-year stay of enforcement of the lead content provisions of section 101(a) of the Consumer Product [...]

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Hillary’s Hamstrung ‘Kitchen Sink’ Strategy

February 29th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Unlike the lead poisoning most often associated with toxic paint on toys and other made-in-China products, another type of lead (sounds like “reed”) poisoning never surfaced as a tactic in Hillary Clinton’s so-called “kitchen sink” strategy aimed at cutting Barack Obama’s lead in the race for the Democratic Party presidential nomination. And for good [...]

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Toxic Toys Video Addresses China Trade Issue

November 21st, 2007 · 1 Comment

I’m not too familiar with the the group, Campaign for America’s Future, which claims to be concerned, like so many Americans, about the incidence of lead-contaminated toys and other products from China making it to the shelves of U.S. stores. I do, however, like their humorous take on the issue of tainted toys which is [...]

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