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CPSC Revises Lead Exclusion Rule in Children's Products

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC or Commission) has issued a rule to amend its existing regulations pertaining to procedures and requirements for exclusions from lead limits on consumer products intended for children 12 years old and younger that contain lead content in excess of 100ppm under section 101(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) in the Federal Register which come into effect on July 10, 2013.

Exclusion of certain materials or products and inaccessible component parts as follow:
(A) The product, class of product, material, or component part requires the inclusion of lead because it is not practicable or not technologically feasible to manufacture such product, class of product, material, or component part, as the case may be, in accordance with paragraph (a) of this section by removing the excessive lead or by making the lead inaccessible;
(B) The product, class of product, material, or component part is not likely to be placed in the mouth or ingested, taking into account normal and reasonably foreseeable use and abuse of such product, class of product, material, or component part by a child; and
(C) An exception for the product, class of product, material, or component part will have no measurable adverse effect on public health or safety, taking into account normal and reasonably foreseeable use and abuse.

For more information::
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-07-10/pdf/2013-15944.pdf