Laws and Regulations

Think you know a toy when you see one? We should soon find out if the Consumer Product Safety Commission agrees with you.

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) held day one of the First North American Consumer Product Safety Summit today at its headquarters in Bethesda, Md.

It isn't hard to imagine how the call would go.

More and more suppliers are investing significant time and effort to developing compliance programs. Can these comprehensive plans guarantee that all these suppliers' products are 100 percent safe and compliant? I regularly hear these questions from end-buyers and distributors alike.

It was one of our hottest selling bags and we were flat out-of-stock. At least a dozen backorders had already piled up by the time the container with 150,000 new pieces finally arrived at our receiving dock.

The U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission said Friday that its staff would begin drafting a proposed rule to regulate cadmium in children's jewelry if the industry did not create voluntary standards to police itself by December 16, 2011.

Some new product safety concerns that may become issues in the future, as well some discussion on the biggest safety problem facing the industry today.

At a Harvard program I enrolled in many years ago, the great Marty Marshall taught us the three most important words in the marketing lexicon: What's going on?

In an online blog entitled, "What Matters Most Is Protecting Your Customer," Rick Brenner, CEO of Prime Line, contends that distributors should protect their clients' most valuable asset—the logo going on the product—by only selling products that comply with CPSIA limits for lead and phthalates.

It started with such a simple and noble objective—protecting children from lead and other toxins.