From the “this possibly can’t be true files”, it appears that in about a month anyone buying, selling or manufacturing products designed for small children is going to find themselves in a morass of new legal requirements that the spokeswoman for the Consumer Product Safety Commission called a “sticky and tricky” new law.
One could suppose that the law has good intentions – preventing children from being exposed to dangerous toys, clothing and just about anything else that contains excessive amounts of lead and a number of other toxins. With the seemingly endless recalls of food and other products with excessive amounts of lead and melamine, it did seem like there needed to be action taken.
So, like they always do, our government in their typical fashion toward gobbleydygook-filled regulations that even lawyers need lawyers to interpret, opted to create a new and industry-unfriendly law that goes to the extreme rather than simply enforce the laws we already have.
I recently happened upon one jewelry maker’s blog where she was discussing a recent email she received from another crafter. The email helpfully suggested her current backgrounds for her jewelry pictures were detracting from her pieces. It was nice to see that the blog owner took this constructive criticism and was rethinking all of her photos as well as creating a conversation among her blog visitors.
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