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Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act Takes Effect, Activist Mom Organization Praises New Law

February 10, 2009

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

MomsRising.org, the online and on-the-ground grassroots organization for moms and everyone who has a mom, praised the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which went into effect today.
 
“Today, children across the United States are safer and their parents have more peace of mind,” said MomsRising.org Executive Director Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. “Not only must toys and infants’ products meet strict new standards for lead and phthalate levels, but parents will also have access to a database of consumer complaints about these items.”
 
MomsRising.org members supported the law, sending nearly 100,000 letters to Members of Congress urging them to pass the legislation and protect children’s health and safety. The organization is now urging the Consumer Product Safety Commission to implement the law in a way that both promotes safe children’s products and allows small businesses to remain competitive.
 
“Nothing matters more to parents than their children’s safety and well-being,” said MomsRising.org President Joan Blades. “These new regulations mean that parents can shop for toys with less worry that the ‘perfect’ toy will turn out to be a health hazard.”
 
For the last two holiday shopping seasons, MomsRising.org has joined forces with HealthyToys.org to help parents learn whether toys contained several of the most dangerous toxins, using a cell phone texting system.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.