Featured Articles

CPSIA – Schylling Agrees to a $200,000 Fine for Lead in Paint

What is the principal goal of the CPSC – to protect consumers from unsafe consumer products, or to punish legal transgressors? If consumers haven’t been harmed, how should this aftect the agency’s decision to punish? These questions come to mind when considering the most recent punishment meted out by the CPSC. In particular, on February... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – Let’s Play a Cadmium Game!

We all know that cadmium is dangerous. After all, the Associated Press and seven Senators told us so. I have asked the innocent question – if cadmium is so dangerous that we absolutely cannot tolerate it in jewelry, what else is similarly dangerous? We have a business making children’s products so it’s important that we understand... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – What Constitutes "Safe"?

One of the tragedies of the CPSIA melodrama is that the consumer groups have completely hijacked the concept of safety, turning it utterly away from concepts of risk assessment. To what, you say? Away from management of identifiable risks to avoidance/elimination of perceived risks. In other words, Congress and our regulators now ignore the data... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – What Constitutes "Safe"?

One of the tragedies of the CPSIA melodrama is that the consumer groups have completely hijacked the concept of safety, turning it utterly away from concepts of risk assessment. To what, you say? Away from management of identifiable risks to avoidance/elimination of perceived risks. In other words, Congress and our regulators now ignore the data... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – CPSIA Casualty of the Week for January 25

The Alliance for Children’s Product Safety’s “CPSIA Casualty of the Week” highlights how the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is disrupting the U.S. marketplace in order to draw attention to the problems faced by small businesses, public institutions, consumers and others trying to comply with senseless and often... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – In Defense of Lead

Perhaps you have been expecting it. After all the “heat” in this blog over the past year, finally, my defense of lead. Hope you’re happy now. . . . Last Friday, Commissioner Bob Adler posted his long-awaited position paper on lead and related CPSIA issues. Weighing in at 21 pages and 89 footnotes, Mr. Adler’s paper includes a... [Read more of this review]

CPSIA – Massachusetts Speaks . . . Will Congress and the CPSC Listen???

On Saturday, the Washington Post published a poll indicating that three-quarters of Massachusetts voters wanted newly-elected Senator Scott Brown to work with Democrats to get Republican ideas into legislation in general. This note was picked up on Face The Nation yesterday, leading to very strong words from host Bob Schieffer: “My own take... [Read more of this review]

Read More Posts From This Category