Gift & Home Assn. Met With Product Safety Commission
By Staff -- Gifts and Dec, 2/17/2009 2:51:00 PM
Washington, DC — Members of the Gift & Home Trade Association (GHTA)’s Public Policy Action Group met with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on February 5. The meeting was intended to educate the CPSC about the gift and home industry, share challenges over current and pending legislation, ask relevant questions, and gain relevant information.
At the meeting were GHTA Board Liaison, Julie Dix, Taggies; along with Doug Cofiell, GHTA president; Diane Carnevale Jones, GHTA executive director and GHTA attorney, Robin Harvey, Baker Hostetler, were granted a meeting with the CPSC, as requested and arranged by Harvey for the GHTA.
Cofiell gave an overview of the Gift and Home Industry and the challenges it faces with compliance, and the GHTA requested guidance on labeling for products not intended, designed, manufactured or sold to children, discussed continuing confusion and gaps over testing protocols and other specific challenges with the testing process, costs associated with component level testing, the interest reported by state attorneys general in enforcement actions over Christmas ornaments and holiday decorations and the challenges facing the industry with state interpretation of the Federal law regarding enforcement variables.
"We left the CPSC understanding the importance of the role GHTA will play as a united voice, a central point of reference for education about current policies and a place where future standards could be established," Cofiell said in a statement. "Our goal in 2009 is to provide up-to-the-minute information on this Public Policy issue that affects the gift and home industry and to provide a place where future standards could be established."
The GHTA also signed a petition drafted by the National Association of Manufacturers, along with more than 60 other trade organizations and associations, asking the CPSC to order an immediately effective emergency stay of the effective date of limits on lead content in accessible parts and components in children's products established under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008. The petition was delivered on the 9th, just before the CPSC spelled out its new lead enforcement policy.
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