Nella Vita di Handmade Toys

So we all know that lead and other toxins in kids toys or even clothes is not good. So Congress passed the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act which will require all retailers who sell merchandise for children under 12 test their products for lead before they can sell them. This sounds like a good idea but it is really set up to decisimate small business, hand crafters and artisans, even thrift stores like Goodwill. It's a retroactive bill so that any kid item made since the big bang would have to be tested. Lead testing is not cheap. The more I read about this the more the whole thing just feels wrong. Only mass-marketing large scale children brand and chains will be able to afford to comply hurting small business (bad!). This bill is so broad that even little old ladies selling their handmade baby jumpers at a church bazaar would be banned (so bad!). All untested merchandise will be considered contaminated and illegal to sell; this is going to result in huge amounts of children's products being sent to a landfill (how friggin wastefull can you be! beyond bad!) Totally a worthywhile and necessary idea, but just so ill thought out. I'm not usually one to push for lobbying or getting over involved, but I think some major revisions are needed to the act. Find out more below...