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May 14, 2008
Stroller rally for toy safety Thursday 10am
 Update 2: Here's a very nice Medill News video of the stroller event. It features an interview with Linda Ginzel. She and her husband Boaz Keysar founded Kids In Danger after their 16 month son Danny Keysar was killed -- ten years ago this week -- when a dangerous and previously-recalled portable crib collapsed around him. Both the House and Senate bills include a section known as The Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act -- on improving recall notifications and crib and durable product safety.
Update: Link to U.S. PIRG testimony yesterday.
Join us Thursday at 10am for a Stroller Rally urging final passage of the strongest possible CPSC reform bill, currently in a House/Senate conference negotiation. 10 am. Upper Senate Park on Constitution Ave between New Jersey and Delaware Avenues, Washington, D.C. Bring the kids (downloadable flyer).
Also, today, U.S. PIRG Public Health Advocate Liz Hitchcock testifies before a Senate Commerce oversight hearing on Plastic Additives in Consumer Products --including toxic bis-phenol-A and phthalates. If the Feinstein amendment to the Senate CPSC Reform Act makes it through Congress, we'll have a tough federal ban on phthalates. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal (pd. subs. req.'d) reports in a story by Joseph Periera and Steve Stecklow that Wal-Mart Raises Bar on Toy-Safety Standards. Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world's largest toy seller, has ordered its suppliers to meet a new set of children's-product safety requirements by this fall that goes far beyond existing government regulations.
The standards include strict limits for lead and a broad array of other heavy metals and chemicals that have been linked to various medical and developmental problems in children. Companies are starting to wake up.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at May 14, 2008 07:51 AM
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