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CPSIA & NONWOVENS
what does the future hold?
By Peter Mayberry • Mayberyy & Associates
By now most members of the nonwoven fabrics industry are likely aware of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA)—a law that was quickly passed by Congress largely to address a spate of imported toys which were found to contain lead yet were still able to enter the U.S. market. As such, the law basically bans children’s products from the U.S. market if they contain more than minute amounts of lead. Congress also used the CPSIA as a means of prohibiting the sale of certain children’s products that contain specific plastic softeners known as phthalates and to implement numerous reforms at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC, the government agency responsible for enforcing the new law).
