The GirlAlive Blog

CPSIA

If you have children or if you care about children or if you care about the environment or if you care about small businesses or if you care about charities like Goodwill and Salvation Army, you need to be writing to your congressperson and getting all up in arms about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. It will destroy small businesses. It will force the destruction of all used toys and childrens clothes, and make it illegal to sell children’s items on Etsy or Ebay. It is designed to stop lead contamination in childrens’ products, but it is punishing the innocent in the process.

Go to http://www.handmadetoyalliance.org/ to read more, and then get angry. And you don’t have to be American to be angry about this. If you live in Europe or Canada or anywhere, it will be illegal to sell childrens’ goods to anyone in America.

Alana