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The artisan toymaker’s CPSIA exemption guide

February 6, 2009

Posted by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment

Tags:
children, COC, CPSC, CPSIA, craft, exemptions, kids, lead, petition, phthalates, shopping, simplesteps, stores, thrift, toys

Last Friday, the CPSC issued a stay of the testing and certification requirements for lead and phthalates.  As a result, toy manufacturers and sellers small and large will NOT be required to test or provide COCs (certificates of compliance) for...continued

Rubber Ducky You're Not The One

December 3, 2008

Posted by Sarah Janssen in Health and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
CPSC, endocrinedisruptors, lead, phthalates, simplesteps, toys

With the holiday season upon us, I have been asked by well meaning friends and family members what they can get my daughter for a Christmas gift. Any ideas I can give them are accompanied by a long list of...continued

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Sarah Janssen
Staff Scientist
San Francisco
I grew up in the rolling hills of rural northern Illinois – in a small...
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