The new consumer safety law requiring that children's books be tested for lead content would have serious implications for publishers, printers, booksellers, and libraries.
On February 1, 2009, Publisher's Weekly reported that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had approved a one-year “stay of enforcement” of the new law, and that Senator Jim DeMint was planning to introduce a bill revising the lead testing regulations.
Publisher's Weekly reported on February 9 that the Commission said that it would "not impose penalties against anyone for making, importing, distributing or selling” certain products, including “an ordinary children’s book printed after 1985."
To keep up to date on this issue, see this web page from the Small Publishers Association of North America.
