Small Businesses And the CPSIA Law

It all began when two companies Baby Candy Store and Little Journeys Baby World met each other through a terrible law called the CPSIA (The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act) passed in August 2008.

Olivia Logan founder and owner of Baby Candy Store was so gracious to email/inform Me (Caroline Riepler founder and owner of Little Journeys Baby World) that my business was in jeopardy with the CPSIA law.

I couldn’t believe it my dreams and many other small mompreneuers, papa preneueures, toy companies, manufactures, and other small business who deal with children/baby products where failing apart at the seams. Instead of us drinking coffee and complaining about it we did certain things to help each other and many others.

And now Baby Candy Store and Little Journeys Baby World is coming together to meet with our State Senator here in Colorado, too ask them to reform the
CPSIA.

What will the reform do?

Here is a short version:

Delay the regulations six months: So that small companies can come into compliance with this law
Allow small manufactures to use the testing and certifications that their suppliers have done to certify that the components do not contain an impermissible amount of lead.
Exempt thrift Stores, yard sales consignment shops and other resellers
Prevent retro-active enforcement of the act.
Provide a Good Faith Exemption
Require the CPSC to provide small businesses with compliance guide.

This would greatly help small business stay a float. But we need help of every mommy, daddy, media, blogger, etc to make this reform happen. Call or write your Senator today, it take all of us to make a change.

We can proudly say that we are doing everything possible to keep ours and other companies dreams going.

For more information on what this CPSIA is, download the entire PDF