A common question I hear from parents is how to protect your children online. There are numerous options from software, to proper parenting that you can choose from.
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Tag: Children
For Promotional Product Sales, Protect Your Client’s Brand
Whether you are selling to a global brand like Nike or to your local YMCA, no single asset is more valuable to your client than the client’s good name.
Read MoreCPSC General Counsel Clarifies Distributor Responsibilities for Children’s Apparel
There aren’t many distributors who would describe themselves as manufacturers. But under CPSIA, the majority of promotional products distributors—at least those who buy blank apparel from a wholesaler and then send it out to have it decorated—are just that.
Read MoreUpdated Toy Safety Standard Takes Effect June 12. New Tests Required!
If you import children’s toys, or if you’re a promotional products supplier with children’s toys in your line, effective tomorrow you’ll need to comply with an update to the mandatory Federal Toy Safety Standard.
Read MoreTracking Label Requirement Still Vexes Suppliers and Distributors
In the four years since the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was signed into law, the promotional products industry has struggled mightily to figure out how to apply it to what we do every day. Nothing has come easily. Perhaps because most promotional products don’t start out as children’s products and perhaps because the “toys” we sell are mostly for adults, there always seems to be a “yes, but” when we try to understand CPSIA in the context of the world we live in.
Read MoreWould You Risk a $10,000 Order to Raise Product Safety Questions?
You get a call one morning from a marketing manager referred to you by one of your customers. She desperately needs 7,500 tote bags for an event the following week and wants to know if you can deliver.
Read MoreCPSC Reveals Top 10 Reported Products
On the eve of SaferProducts.gov’s one-year anniversary, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has released its list of the 10 most-reported product categories.
Read MoreLoopholes in Product Safety Law Put Compliance Burden on You
You sell a product to a Little League for distribution to 7-year-olds. Would your client expect the product to comply with Federal children’s product standards?
Read MoreDistributor to Supplier: Is this Product OK for Children?
I received a call last week from a distributor concerned about an order she had recently shipped through an industry supplier for a children’s event.
Read MoreThe Kids Aren’t Alright
The news talks about everything endangering our children: toxic toys, fattening fast food, etc. Yet no one addresses the real threat: kids’ awful taste in clothing.
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