Pardon me - I stand corrected by an annonymous commentor on my last post - thank you annonymous for correcting me. It seems that there was not a 'modification' made to the CSPC legislature that would require all businesses selling children's items to have their merchandise tested for lead content. It was supposed to be a 'clarification'. I say 'supposed to be' because the very definition of the root word Clarify means 'To make clear; to brighten or illuminate; applied to the mind or reason', but the supposed 'clarification' is about as clear as mud.  The best I can tell from the wording is that those selling used items will not have to have their items tested, yet if they are caught (knowingly or unknowingly) selling items that exceed the legal level of lead the same hefty penalties will be applied to them. So here are my questions about this:

How is one to know the lead content level of any particular item without having the pricy testing done?

Will the government issue a list of each and every item that may or may not be donated that would exceed the legal level of lead?

And sadly this does not do anything to solve the dilemna this legislature puts hundreds thousands of businesses in. This will only feed the big companies, from whence the problem came, who can afford the testing, by eliminating all of the smaller 'Mom and Pop' businesses that are their competition.

Please America - contact your state representatives and ask them to please change this bad law before it is too late.