Tag: Cpsia

What Do Liberty Balls Represent?

Jeff Solomon, MAS

I’ve covered many topics through the years and this one is perhaps the most frightening. It threatens our livelihoods and puts a bright spotlight on the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Increasing awareness for product safety and CPSIA regulations is a good thing. Our industry needs to better understand what it takes to be in compliance with these regulations, but this story is outright scary. 

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Tracking Label Requirement Still Vexes Suppliers and Distributors

Rick Brenner

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.

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Loopholes in Product Safety Law Put Compliance Burden on You

Rick Brenner

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?

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A State of Confusion?

Brent Stone

It seems like every week I read an article lamenting the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) and the efforts underway in Congress to roll back some of the provisions of this law.

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Think This Can’t Happen to You? The Reality of CPSIA

Jeff Solomon, MAS

We have all heard about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). And up to now, as distributors, we have been relatively insulated to the developing changes that suppliers have had to follow closely and adapt to be compliant. That is all ending now.

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