Child-Product Makers Seek to Soften New Rules (have found a receptive audience among House Repubs)

[kpete]

Source: New York Times

Child-Product Makers Seek to Soften New Rules
By ANDREW MARTIN
Published: February 21, 2011

Emboldened by a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, manufacturers of toys and other children’s products are making a last-ditch effort to quash new safety regulations that they say are unfair or too onerous.

A toy factory in China. Some manufacturers say that tough rules spurred by a wave of Chinese toy recalls are too onerous.

Among their primary targets is a new public database, operated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and scheduled to go online in three weeks, that would allow the public to search for injury reports on products like cribs and strollers.

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They have found a receptive audience among House Republicans.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/business/22consumer.html

[derby378]

1. New, improved Justin Bieber dolls - now with more RAZOR-SHARP EDGES!

Hell, the little fuckers don't need all those fingers, anyway... :grr:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Just when I think they couldn't get more evil...

Now they want to gut safety regulations governing products for children. This from the party of Family Values. I guess they don't care about kids who choke on toys or get strangled in strollers or whose pajamas catch fire. Dead kids are just a cost of doing business, unless, of course, they haven't been born yet. Then the GOPers figure that their mothers can die if that's necessary to protect them so they'll live long enough to be born and then get their heads stuck in the slats of a defective crib.

Have I ever mentioned how much I hate these people?

[Upside down in Vegas]

3. Looks like the fix is on....

I read the story and looks like it's both parties are caving to the corporate "pressure", which means threats of contributions being cut off.

[madrchsod]

4. they still have to deal with state regulations

the illinois ag and the chicago tribune are one of the leaders in the usa for investigation and legal action against child product manufactures.

[sakabatou]

5. "Can we use lead paint again?"

[Javaman]

6. Couple this with some repukes wanting to repeal child labor laws..

next christmas, the new children's toy that is all the rage! work gloves.