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GUEST BLOG – American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) Urges You To Participate in Survey on Impact of CPSIA-Mandated Testing
July 21, 2010 by Rick Woldenberg, Chairman, Learning Resources, Inc.
Filed under BLOG, Featured Articles
The American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) Wants You!
Many have pointed out to the CPSC that the additional testing costs mandated by the CPSIA have been extremely burdensome on companies and have even caused many to either shut down or abandon the children’s product market.
This blog has provided concrete examples with its Casualties of the Week (for example see here, here and here).
Some are still not convinced. CPSC Commissioner Adler made the point at a recent CPSC briefing that “anecdotes are not evidence.”
The AAFA has been collecting information (“evidence”) from companies to see exactly how the testing rules have impacted their businesses. This information is important to help document to CPSC and Congress the economic impact of CPSIA.
To continue gathering data, AAFA recently published two surveys online to gauge the impact of consumer product testing. One survey is for manufacturers, wholesalers and suppliers and the other is for retailers and licensors.
If you are (or were) in the children’s product business, we strongly urge you to fill out this survey online. It only takes a few minutes.
The surveys are especially geared towards assessing the impact on businesses, and business awareness of, two proposed rulemakings that are due August 3, “Conditions and Requirements for Testing Component Parts of Consumer Products” and “Testing and Labeling Pertaining to Product Certification,” as well as how the stay of testing and certification requirements impact companies’ testing protocols and costs.
To access the survey for manufacturers, wholesalers and suppliers please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D6S3D7N
To access the survey for retailers and licensors please visit http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/D668GJT
Thank you for your participation.
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GUEST BLOG – American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) Urges You To Participate in Survey on Impact of CPSIA-Mandated Testing
Make a Difference with Simply Two Correspondences a Day
March 25, 2009 by Jolie
Filed under Rally Archive
Leading up to the rally, you can make a difference by making simply two correspondences a day. Pick from any of the list of our recommendations:
- Call your Senator or your Representative to request these two things:
- Attendance at the rally & briefing
- Support for one of the amendment bills or ask that a new bill is created to amend this law.
- Call a member of the one of the committees ruling on these bills
- Committee info to follow
- Request local media coverage
- Write a letter to the editor of your local paper
- Use an email form to request coverage in the local paper
- Ask if you can write an article for your child’s school newsletter or paper.
- Contact a local and applicable trade periodical to ask them to cover the rally.
- Write a message to your favorite bloggers and ask for a CPSIA-rally blog post.
- Tell them why amending this law means so much to you and tie it into something they blog about regularly.
- Give them suggestions based on their content on how they might talk about how this law affects the blogger’s readers.
- Ask them to blog on April 1st (aka April Fool’s day) in support of the rally. “This Amend CPSIA rally is no joke!”
- Contact fairs and festivals as well as church/school groups that have craft fairs.
- Explain the effects of this law on their sales. They would be breaking the law by making a baby blanket or knitting a hat that they plan to sell at any craft fair.
- Point them to your favorite CPSIA educational posts.
- Point them to this website and tell them about the rally.
- Ask them to inform their friends and family.
- Ask them to make a difference with simply two correspondences a day.
- Contact your local schools to let them know of the impact to their school books and supplies.
- Remind them that books, backpacks, notebooks, and pens all far under this law.
- Provide them with the information about how this law affects them.
By simply contacting two people or organizations, you can make a difference! It is through all of our efforts, that will affect change.
We have made it this far through our grassroots efforts and we will continue to make by letting those affected know about how we hope to change this law.
