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CPSC Posts Comments on Feasibility of 100 ppm Kid's Product Lead Limit

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted the comments it received on its July 2010 request for information and comments on the technological feasibility of the 100 parts per million lead content limit for children's products. This limit is set…

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to take effect August 14, 2011, unless CPSC determines that such a limit is not technologically feasible for a product or product category, in which case, the lowest amount below 300 ppm (the current limit) would be set. (These comments were also posted to www.regulations.gov and summaried in ITT. See ITT’s Online Archives or 10/19/10 news, 10101914, for BP summary describing the comments CPSC received on the feasibility of the 100 ppm limit.)