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CPSC New Lead Content Law in Children’s Products Go into Effect in August

August 7th, 2011
The new law regulates the amount of lead per million allowed for products.

The new law regulates the amount of lead per million allowed for products.

The new lead content law in children’s toys and other products will go into effect in August.  The new rules will set the maximum amount of lead in children’s products at 100 parts per million.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted 3-2 to clear the way for the implementation of the new lead content  law, which would set the lead content limit at 100 ppm.  The new rule will go into effect from 14 August.  The new rule would be part of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s ongoing efforts to reduce the lead content in children’s products.  Those efforts are the result of provisions in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, which focused to a large extent on the high lead content in several children’s products.

The dangers from that excessive lead content came to light in 2007 when there were several recalls, involving lead content in children’s toys.  Several children’s toys including popular toys manufactured by Mattel were found to contain high concentrations of lead.  Most of the toys were manufactured in China.

There was outrage from parents and Los Angeles product liability attorneys that dangerous and defective toys containing hazardous concentrations of lead were being imported into the country by some of the country’s biggest retailers and toy companies.  The lead was contained in the surface paints used to coat the products.  Most of the exposure occurred when children put toys and other children’s products containing lead paint into their mouths and ingested the paint.

Lead can have serious health effects on growing children.  It has been found linked to delayed development in children, and contributes to learning disabilities, and even mild brain damage.  Children, who are exposed to high concentrations of lead in children’s products like toys, may also suffer from neurological damage.  They may be at a high risk for suffering attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and other kinds of disorders.  Lead can also end up in the bone where it can deplete calcium levels.  It can enter the bloodstream, and interfere with the production of blood cells.

While lead is toxic to just about everyone, growing children whose brains are developing may be at the highest risk of suffering serious injuries from lead exposure.  Adults may not be that easily harmed by exposure.  Besides young and growing children, lead exposure may be deadly to pregnant women and their unborn fetuses.

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 ordered that lead content levels in children’s products be progressively lowered.  In 2009, the Consumer Product Safety Commission lowered the lead limit to 600 ppm.  Later that year, the agency set the limit of 300 ppm.  Now, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has voted to lower the level limit further to 100 ppm.

 

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