Annys Shin of the Washington Post is reporting in a story Tighter Lead Rule for Kids' Items that the CPSC will announce today Monday a legal opinion that confirms that the new Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act requires that all children's products containing lead in amounts greater than 600 ppm must be off the shelves by February, and will require that product previously manufactured and in inventory be destroyed. The bad news is that at a recent public meeting, the CPSC all but told industry lawyers and lobbyists that -- (paraphrase) "except for toys with toxic lead (and probably also toxic phthalates) where that pesky Congress has boxed us in, not to worry as we intend to go out of our way and interpret all other effective dates for all new product standards as loosely as possible, so you can keep on selling dangerous products you've already made." I noted this pro-industry slant in my blog after that meeting, as did Annys Shin in her blog. Page 11 of this CPSC slideshow from that meeting explains the rationale for lead and phthalates; previous pages explain why other dangerous products may be treated with less deference to safety.