Spoken too soon. Attorneys who specialize in the matter say it's a basic reiteration of the law.

Yesterday's PR regarding resale shops amounted to (as someone said) the law reiterated to read "telling your child they don't need to brush teeth, but spanking them if they have bad breath!" Resale stores will sell children's items at their own risk, namely $100,000 fines and five years in prison if they "guess" wrong. I don't imagine many resale shop owners are chemists or environmental engineers.

Besides, every single tax payer will be impacted if you consider the law's effect on schools. Can resale shops sell enough telescopes and microscopes, books, school supplies and educational materials for all the demand there will be? The people who sell those can't afford to sell them anymore because testing on this stuff runs -in some cases- up to $24,000 (yes, twenty four THOUSAND dollars) and there's not much point selling them if your gross sales are only $32,000 from which the cost of goods hasn't even been subtracted. There's a great video on youtube that explains more of the impact on everyone, whether they sew for charities or even have kids at all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqKjJgdUZ3E&feature=channel_page

Btw, thanks for publicizing this! I also suggest visiting the War Room for up to the minute updates and focused activism. There's also the automated mailer to email legislators in one fell swoop. http://tinyurl.com/5hloos. Lastly, we are asking people to fill out the Economic Impact Survey http://bit.ly/Cdwv.

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Not so. The CPSC General Counsel, Cheryl Falvey, has stated that while the phthalate requirement does not retroactively apply to inventory manufactured before 2/10, the lead requirement DOES. http://cpsc.gov/library/foia/advisory/320.pdf

And thrift stores are NOT off the hook; they don't have to test, but they still have to know their merchandise is under the acceptable lead level-- and how will they know that if they don't test? If they don't test, they'll have to roll the dice whether or not the product has lead-- and if they roll snake eyes, the hammer comes down on them hard. The CPSC is hoping we'll all back down if we think they are giving thrift stores a pass.

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Thought you would be interested in this short omega-3 video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIgNpsbvcVM

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