Dangerous Books (Fox 23 News, Albany, NY)

Fox 23 News in Albany, New York talked about CPSIA’s affect on books:

Ever wonder what is between the bindings of the books your kids are reading?
Turns out it may not be the content you should be worried about, but what is literally printed on the pages could be dangerous.
Now, one organization, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, is pushing for certain books to be pulled from the shelves at local libraries to have them tested for lead.

Libraries usually spend their time weeding out books covered in stains or ink spots, now, they could be adding kids books printed before 1986.
That was before lead was banned from printer’s ink.

Under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, any children’s book printed before 1986 would be pulled from library shelves.
At the Guilderland Public Library, around 10,000 of their books would qualify.
Barbara Nichols Randall, the library’s director, says, “on average we weed about 1,600 books a year, so that would be 7 years of weeding in just one year.”

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