CPSC Issues Final CPSIA Rules
On October 20th, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to approve the final testing and certification rules under the Consumer Product Safety Information Act of 2008. This has been one of the pieces still to be put into place in the three-year saga since the enactment of the CPSIA, which was intended to protect children 12 and under from lead and other hazards in all kinds of products, including some books.
“It’s good news/bad news,” says Gary Jones, assistant v-p, environmental, health and safety affairs at the Printing Industries of America. “After a long process, the Commission finally released the rules for the third-party testing and the component testing.” But there remains some confusion surrounding some of the rules, and a few key issues were held for future rulings.
The new rules primarily affect publishers of novelty children’s books and book-plus sets; most ordinary children’s books were excluded from the testing and certification provisions in an amendment passed in August. However, publishers of ordinary children’s books are still awaiting the CPSC’s interpretation of the amendment, H.R. 2715.
From “Publisher’s Weekly.” Complete Article can be read here.
