Aug 02 2011
The publishers of printed books and materials received good news on Monday. Three years after the enactment of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, the USA government passed an amendment exempting "ordinary" children's books from the law’s lead testing provisions.
"It's awesome news," says Gary Jones, assistant v-p for environmental, health and safety affairs at the Printing Industries of America. "We still have to comply with the lead limits and the tracking labels, but not the most onerous part, which is the testing and subsequently the certification requirements. While the legislation does not specifically exclude us from certification, if we don’t have to test, we should not have to certify."
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