Consumer Product Safety Regulation

Book excerpt: The new Consumer Product Safety Regulation provides you with comprehensive, compliance-enabling insight into the 2008 Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the most dramatic overhaul of consumer product safety legislation since the 1970s.Written by one of the country's foremost authors, instructors, and legal advisers in the field, Consumer Product Safety Regulation shows you how the 2008 amendments bring: substantially lower lead limits for toys and children's products . bans on certain chemical compounds in toys and child care articles . more rigorous testing and certification of children's products . mandates tracking labels for children's products . requires new product warnings in ads and on websites for toys and games . increased CPSC authority to effect and enforce product recalls . stronger whistleblower protections for workers who report suspected illegalities . enhanced state attorneys general power to enforce CPSC rules and standards . and much more severe penalties for corporate and individual violators.