There have been reports that many Chinese companies made unannounced modification of their formulas and thus varying of levels of lead may be seen in toys being imported from China. However, not all toys imported from China contains lead and problems is for only those toys which are painted with lead containing paint, toys made up of PVC, toys made up of metal or toys in which involvement of lead in the manufacturing or finishing of toys is present. Unfinished toys made up of wood do not contain lead along with many other such materials in which lead is not present.

After the regular news and reports about hazards of toys containing lead to the health of children, the American Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) in 2008 in which along with other mandatory practices for manufactures of toys it was said essential for manufactures to attain certification from third party after the same third part perform required testing to rule out presence of lead in toys and clear that toys are not hazardous to the health of children.

At LA Toy Store we have developed a fool proof system to meet the requirements posed by CPSIA and ensure that all our products are safe and pose no threat whatsoever to the health of children. LA Toy Store quality control system is a two step procedure. Manufacturer at China performs the first check on each batch of toys and gives the importer clearance reports on all toys being imported to U.S. Upon arrival to U.S. the toys are again subject to vigorous testing by a third party as per recommendation of CPSIA and the same third party issues a clearance report and issue the clearance certificate for toys later sell by latoystore to our customers. Therefore, toys are LA Toy Store are completely safe and healthy for children.

Lead Free Toys at LA Toy Store is a post from: LA Toy Store's Blog

These new changes are far simpler for those manufacturers who are working on a very large scale to simply modify or add few steps in their toy production process. Also adding these simple steps like labeling or adding batch number for them is not a big problem because of their large production and cost for such action is minimal if we talk of thousand toy production in a day. But what about those toymakers who are working at very small level but producing the state-of-art toys which are proven to be completely safe for children. Here CPSIA completely ignore this fact and demand for every toy producer to follow the act in totality. Now let us talk about the testing cost if it is done by any third-party as mentioned in CPSIA. It is estimated that fee for such testing could reach about $300-$400 fee per toy in order to sell any toy.

Now you can very imagine how deeply flawed this CPSIA is when we consider those toymakers who make say 100 toys a month. The truth of matter is that most of toys which are being manufactured in United States and Europe are safe and carry no such problems. The problem is with the toys that are being bombarded to our markets from country like China. Despite addressing this problem, CPSIA quite ignorantly put small toy makers into deep hole for nothing. This is high time for re-evaluation of CPSIA in the light of true facts to save large number of people involved in micro-business. It is well known that wood, cotton, paper and other such natural material do not contain lead or any other toxic material at all, so why to include these into same testing process as plastic or other such materials. Also labeling and adding batch number does not by any means apply to small toy businessmen and this should uniquely apply to those producers making toys in large numbers. Such amendments will surely provide relief to small businessmen in toy industry who are already facing the huge challenges for survival in the market.

CPSIA: True Spirit But Wrong Implementation is a post from: LA Toy Store's Blog