Comments on: House hearing on CPSIA Thursday https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/02/house-hearing-on-cpsia-thursday/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:13:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: delurking https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/02/house-hearing-on-cpsia-thursday/comment-page-1/#comment-115790 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 17:13:03 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=21560#comment-115790 Thanks for continuing to follow the CPSIA.

Do you know what the situation is with bicycles? I got the impression that the motorcycle industry canned their kids’ products due to CPSIA, but the the bicycle industry just decided to ignore it. I thought there were CPSIA-banned levels of lead in alloys used in things like inner tube valves, and possibly other components.

]]> By: William Nuesslein https://www.overlawyered.com/2011/02/house-hearing-on-cpsia-thursday/comment-page-1/#comment-115647 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:24:11 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=21560#comment-115647 It is unfortunate that Rep. Denny Rehberg misses the forest for the trees. Banning the smaller motorcycles would increase harm to those children who then choose to ride an inappropriate adult machine. In this regard, Rep. Rehberg is right. But he is terribly wrong in implying that CPSIA protects anybody from anything. The risks from substantial lead levels are vastly overstated, like equating the cancer risks from feeding pounds of chemicals to laboratory rats to the risk posed by the parts per billions exposure from normal foodstuff. The obsession with lead by James August and moronic pediatricians is madness.

The inability of people, even well educated people, to understand magnitude of risks is the problem with CPSIA, the closing of the Shoreham nuclear power plant, and the treasonous closing of Yucca Mountain.

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