Comments on: CPSIA: Things I learned at the rally

By: White House nominates two to CPSC

White House nominates two to CPSC — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:09:02 +0000

[…] to the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine”; in its blind and clueless advocacy of a maximally onerous CPSIA, Consumers Union has taken a back seat only to Public Citizen […]

By: Trojan Horse “Food Safety” Law | OpenMarket.org

Trojan Horse “Food Safety” Law | OpenMarket.org — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:58:16 +0000

[…] books being thrown out and pulled from library shelves by the thousands. It harmed poor people and special-needs kids. It rendered many ordinary bicycles illegal and made motorcycles more dangerous to […]

By: BG

BG — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:14:06 +0000

Here is a new YouTube video of interviews with motorcycle racers.

By: Crunchy Con

Crunchy Con — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 21:16:10 +0000

Overlawyering our fresh food to death…

Walter Olson at Overlawyered sounds the alarm about what Washington’s proposed food safety reforms may do to small farmers, farmers markets and suchlike. Excerpt: What could possibly go wrong? The answer, it seems, is “plenty”. Patrick, and the othe…

By: Darby

Darby — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:54:45 +0000

Thank you again for your excellent coverage. Concerning the groups like Consumers Union and Public Citizen, I’m thinking that there’s no way they even read the legislation. It just seems impossible to me that anyone could actually read it and think it was a great idea. Seems like they focused on the two words (safety improvement) in the title and kinda got stuck there.

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:03:05 +0000

My understanding is that risk assessment has already been done for phthalates by the CPSC already. The ban is unnecessary as children mouth their toys about 2 minutes a day when 75 minutes a day would be required.

If a child sucks on a spring in a ball point pen, lead is the least of his problems.

Senator Durbin says there is no safe amount of lead, but his law has a 600 ppm, going down to 100 ppm, allowance. The law is crazy on its face and must be annulled.

By: joliefay2003

joliefay2003 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:38:44 +0000

If you are reading this, likely you are working for an amendment to the CPSIA. Uniting all sectors effected by this law, and getting them to agree on one amendment that would work for most of us, have been a challenge.

We all agree our lawmakers need to bring in some common sense changes to this law. We do not all agree on exactly what these changes should be, but we all want to see the safe products freed up from the requirements of expensive testing.

CPSC has told us that they need legislative approval to develop a risk-assessment program under CPSIA. Pooling our resources to work on a risk-assessment ONLY legislative piece might help us get it passed as soon as possible. This legislation need not design the risk-assessment program or procedures, it just needs to authorize CPSC to use a risk assessment program when applying the lead and phthalate testing and labeling portions of the law. CPSC can then design the program.

Please let me know what you think.

By: H.R. 875, Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009

H.R. 875, Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009 — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 04:04:21 +0000

[…] of the Washington scene help bring us that debacle, but — much less forgivably — they have continued blindly or mendaciously to deny that there is anything that needs fixing about the law at all, even as its damage has […]

By: William Nuesslein

William Nuesslein — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:01:41 +0000

Senator Durbin is a really nice man of limited intellectual capacity. His letter states his firm belief that thousands of children have been harmed by lead in toys. This belief is universal. Who would put saving household crafts above the wide spread poisoning of children. Unfortunately we do not have cross examination to demonstate that Senator is the grotesque fool that he is.

CPSIA is just an affect of the corruption of our agencies and professional societies brought on by bad law, activists, and a generally moronic press.

Everyone, every time, has to stress the foolishness of the lead hazard.

And we can’t paint the Pulaski Skyway because of extreme lead regulations.

By: Walter Olson

Walter Olson — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 11:42:35 +0000

Yes, that man's presentation about the law's effect on assistive devices for special-needs kids was pretty riveting, and only one of a number of such accounts already out there (I linked a few here.) I should really blog it, although it shouldn't take blogging from me to get the press to cover such a natural story. His name, according to my notes, is Steve Kanor, and his company is called Enabling Devices Inc. in New York.