Will CPSIA Forbid Kids from Studying Minerals?
Will CPSIA Forbid Kids from Studying Minerals? Tuesday January 13, 2009 America never reacts, it seems, without overreacting. When China’s lax industrial system allowed hazardous goods to be exported, and when long-approved chemicals were found to have unforeseen health effects, Congress responded with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), a law mandating that every supplier of products for children under 12 test them for lead and phthalate content. Mini Me Geology, a charming geologist-owned supplier of educational mineral and rock kits, is an example of the people that CPSIA worries. Owner Tracy Barnhart posted on her Mini Me Geology Blog that Mini Me’s My Rockin Collection Minerals kit, the simplest imaginable product, could cost thousands of dollars to have tested by a
Will CPSIA Forbid Kids from Studying Minerals? Tuesday January 13, 2009#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3)America never reacts, it seems, without overreacting. When China’s lax industrial system allowed hazardous goods to be exported, and when long-approved chemicals were found to have unforeseen health effects, Congress responded with the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), a law mandating that every supplier of products for children under 12 test them for lead and phthalate content. Mini Me Geology, a charming geologist-owned supplier of educational mineral and rock kits, is an example of the people that CPSIA worries. Owner Tracy Barnhart posted on her Mini Me Geology Blog that Mini Me’s My Rockin Collection Minerals kit, the simplest imaginable prod
