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I've mentioned the tracking label issue briefly before, and the deadline for this dozzy of a business killer is coming up fast. Like a train-wreck waiting to happen.
Overlawyered:
On August 14, unless the Consumer Product Safety Commission acts to stay matters, a new set of CPSIA provisions will take effect requiring makers of children’s products to affix to their goods tracking labels intended to facilitate future recalls and other safety-related measures. As with many other aspects of this law, the tracking rules impose a burden that is perhaps bearable for many producers who operate on a large industrial scale; as noted in some detail two weeks ago, however, they are causing much hair-pulling — if not thoughts of retirement or bankruptcy — for many others that produce handmade, customized or small-batch items, or items not well suited in size, material, use or packaging to an individual labeling process. Kathleen Fasanella has a short account at Fashion Incubator explaining some of the steps that will be expected of those producing children’s apparel and sewn products, including makers who might have been turning out a dozen hats or cloth dolls a month at their kitchen tables...Read the rest of Walter Olson's excellent post, and Kathleen's as well.
Meanwhile, another children's product has been recalled- a children's floaty seat- basically an inflatable walker, only without the wheels because you put the inflatable seat in the water so baby can play along with you. In this version, however, at least thirty babies have had the seats tear while they were in them, dropping the babies into the water. There have been no injuries because alert parents snatched their children up out of the water.
I will give you one guess which country is the source of the product.
