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Changes to lead testing law offer reprieve for some artists, children’s retailers- The Consumer Product Safety Commission has said that it has modifed parts of the CPSIA on Wednesday, January 7, 2009 and will make a formal announcement shortly. Video copyright KVAL 13 Eugene, Oregon All rights reserved Broadcasted Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Please go [...]

Testing cats’ agility Dog agility competitions make great TV, with pooches racing around an obstacle course. If you’ve seen it, your reaction probably wasn’t, “What about cats?” Read more on Concord Monitor

He handcrafts toys. She handmakes children’s apparel. Meet Paul and Dodie Sullivan, a Tulsa couple who is feeling the gloom this holiday season of the looming cpsia’s testing regulations which go into affect February 2009. Video from a report by Fox23 Tulsa, Oklahoma- December 2008 Copyright Fox23 Tulsa, Oklahoma All rights reserved www.fox23.com Please go [...]

Christine Stewart’s Happy Fun Dough business may have all the fun stolen from it with new lead testing so expensive, it will put her out of business. Kristen derocha of hotslings Baby Carriers is worried that her homebased business is in jeopardy as well. ********* In February, a new federal law takes effect that requires [...]

Mid-Michigan toy stores which stock natural toys are facing passing on the high costs of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Acts mandated testing to their faithful customers. Chris Mathew of the Linden Toy Factory and dave Barr of Imagination Station express their concern. Video from WJRT ABC12 (Flint- Saginaw, Michigan News) Broadcast Tuesday, December 30, [...]