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UPDATE: Resale and New Lead Rules
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission should be coming out this morning with a press release that I'm told will clarify the new rules requiring lead testing for children's products that go into effect on Feb. 10.
Scott Wolfson, a spokesman, said the release should come out in the next couple of hours. It was slated to come out yesterday, but Wolfson said they were held up.
Wolfson said the release will spell out exactly what will be expected of those in the resale market.
"It's going to be on the resale marketplace and what the obligations are and are not," he told me minutes ago. "We want to calm the waters as best we can."
The press release will be posted at www.cpsc.gov. And I'll get something up as soon as I get it too.
Local consignment store and sale owners, along with parents, have been scrambling to understand what the new rules will mean for them. Read more about it at my post here. And my second post with response from some local sales and stores.
Sarah Lindenfeld Hall
Sarah is in charge of content for TriangleMom2Mom.com and writes about family-friendly events, local moms groups and other topics for the site.
She lives in Raleigh with her husband and three-year-old daughter. Sarah has written for newspapers since she was a teenager living in snowy Central New York. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she traipsed a bit around Europe and Mount Airy, N.C., before settling down in the Triangle. She moved here in 1999 to take a job with The News & Observer. She once aspired to play flute professionally. More recently, her daughter started crying when she played it.
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