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CPSIA 2008′s new safety laws are hurting local toymakers and businesses.
Mel Taber of Camillus, NY runs a toymaking business out of his home and is concerned that CPSIA 2008′s new testing standards will be so costly, he will be put out of business.
Video from a report by WYSR NBC9 Syracuse, NY, Monday, December 22, 2008
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My Fox Chicago delves into the new regulations set by the CPSIA 2008 on lead testing for toys. Besides giving information on how parents can check to see if the toy they plan to put under the Christmas tree is safe, they talk to Rick Woldenberg, Chairman, of Learning Resources. Woldenberg is concerned that the CPSIA has not made provision for handcrafters, artisans and small manufacturers of childrens items and the strict mandatory testing will put many out of business.
An Easy Way to Check Unsafe Toys for Lead-
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From a broadcast on Fox Chicago, Wednesday, December 17, 2008
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Class action lawsuits have been filed against Mattel Toys that asks for Mattel to pay for lead testing in children who have played with any of the thousands of toys Mattel has recalled due to lead content.
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Chrisagis Brothers Good News Network tv series. This episode taught on Safety segment #2.
This was a personal favorite of the brothers themselves. The show won telly awards for best children’s programming, best educational show, and most entertaining.
This episode was from the first year of the Good News Network and really set the standard for the brothers’ muppet show like variety series. The Good News Network ran for 4 years and always had a strong character building message. The show was more entertaining then Seasame Street so families enjoyed watching it… The series ended its run but then branched off into Variety specials that were more Christian in nature.
The Chrisagis Brothers (Brian & Shawn) are licensed ministers and founders of the Chrisagis Brothers Ministries and the popular Good News Gang children’s ministry, are still sharing their powerful testimony and are ministering fulltime to all ages at churches, conferences, and seminars worldwide.
Sixteen of the brothers’ Good News Gang characters have been manufactured as dolls, each with a different story teaching a character building skill. In 2006 the twins released a children’s book entitled “Mad-Cap Kingdom” with 14 stories along with two new toy lines, The Smokey Mountain Pals and The Rockhounds. During the summer of 2007 the brothers branched out into another media – radio with their own hour long segment on WKKX, AM1600 “Chrisagis Mania”. The radio show and the radio station hit number one in the entire area. In late summer the twins were asked to help co-host an internet radio show Humbleoradio with Marty Daniels and the show became a success.
Presently the Brothers are starring in their own weekly Variety Series entitled “The Chrisagis Brothers & Friends”. The Variety Show is cutting edge and is a mix of Carol Burnett, Saturday Night Live, & Mike Douglas. It is a landmark in ground breaking shows for Christian TV and the twins get to show their comical side. They are also working on bringing their talk radio show to TV in 2009.
The twins have appeared on TV, radio, and in Christian magazines all over the world. The Good News Gang Variety Series, which they wrote for the Sky-Angel TV Network, is currently running on KTV, the largest Christian Children’s Network in the world. They hosted and wrote for Candid Camera, and have worked with several well-known celebrities from Hollywood such as Erik Estrada, Jack Scalia, Jennifer O’Neill, Lee Horsley, Lucky Vanous, Suzanne Summers, Peter Funt, Fred Travalena, Charles Wahlheim, Brett Baxter Clark, Kathy Troccoli, and Jo Ann Pflug to name a few.
“The Chrisagis Brothers are leading the way in good, clean entertainment for the entire family.” —Kathleen Johnson, Vice President of Programming, SKY-ANGEL Network
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Brian Pharoah fondly remembers playing with handmade wooden toys made by his grandfather. Pharoah started looking for toys reminiscent of his childhood and subsequently started an online wooden toy business called realwoodentoys.com. But will the CPSIA testing laws chip away at Pharoah’s wooden toy suppliers so badly, he will end up with a skeleton of his pride and joy?
Video from WSMV 4 Nashville, Tennesee
Broadcast Wednesday, December 24, 2008
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Hundreds of workers from the childrens garment industry in New York protested the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act which will go into effect February 10, 2009. Spokesman Cory Silverstein of Kids Headquarters said the consequences of the CPSIA will be grave.
Despite the one year stay of enforcement for lead testing and certificates of content which the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued Friday, January 30, 2009, Silverstein stated that millions of pieces of safe product are being shipped back to the manufacturers. As a result, the manufacturers will be forced to destroy perfectly safe clothing at tremendous losses, forcing many to declare bankruptcy. Closed manufacturers means thousands of workers will lose their jobs.
Steve Levy of Star Ride Kids demonstrated the clothing components which would have to be tested and made a call for common sense.
Don Mays of Consumer Union which publishes Consumer Reports Magazine talked to WABC reporter Tappy Phillips and told her that implementation of the regulations was handled badly. He also said that parents don’t have to worry too much about the safety of clothing already in the marketplace.
From WABC New York, New York
Broadcast Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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Jennifer vanVorst enjoys making baby bibs and she likes the bit of income she makes from selling them. Her fabrics are organic and do not contain lead or the other tested chemicals that are part of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act’s new regulations.
She fears without exemptions or modifications of the CPSIA, she will be forced to hang up the baby bibs for good.
PLUS, BICYCLES are under scrutiny per the new law too!
Video from KDVR Fox 31 Denver, Colorado
Broadcast Friday, January 2, 2009
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Today the House is considering, HR 4040, the Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act. The bill creates the TOUGHEST lead standard in the world for children’s products, requires mandatory safety standards for nursery products (e.g., cribs and high chairs) and after review for toys, requires mandatory third-party testing of children’s products, requires tracking labels to aid recalls, prohibits the sale and export of recalled products, improves public notice, protects rights of injured consumers to sue bad actors, strengthens the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and provides CPSC with urgently needed resources, and bans travel by CPSC Commissioners and staff that is paid for by an organization regulated by the CPSC.
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Cecilia Leibovitz was planning to sell bunches of her lovingly handcrafted bunnies this Easter, but new CPSIA lead testing regulations have threatened the existence of the cute critters. Her business, Baby Fairies, stopped making them because the testing is so expensive.
Leibovitz and her partner, Michael Secore, also run an online store called Craftsbury Kids, which represents about 100 artisans and handcrafters who make toys and clothing.
http://www.craftsburykids.com/
Cecilia Leibovitz has been instrumental in the grassroots movement to modify the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act 2008 which will go into effect February 10, 2009. Prohibitively costly lead testing will potentially put out of business thousands of handcrafters, artisans and small businesses which produce and sell children’s products.
Cecilia Leibovitz’s idea to “Save Small Business from the CPSIA” was a winner in the recent Ideas for Change in America Competition on the website change.org. The top ten causes which received the most votes from the public will be presented to US President Barack Obama.
http://www.change.org/ideas
http://www.change.org/ideas/view/save_handmade_toys_from_the_cpsia
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See the full article on Etsy’s blog, the Storque. Toymaker Amber Dusick aka woodmouse has her wood shop in her garage in downtown LA. After the birth of her son, this one time farm girl from Minnesota became nostalgic for the toys from her past: simple, natural toys that would inspire creativity and imaginative play, made from materials that wouldn’t stick around in a landfill for thousands of years.
This video can also be seen at etsy.com and etsy.com’s YouTube channel- YouTube/etsy
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