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"As of Saturday, August 14, children&amp;#039;s products designed primarily for kids 12 and younger will not be allowed to contain more than 100 parts per million (ppm) of lead.  When the Consumer Products Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) was signed into law in 2008, it mandated that by February 10, 2009 no children&amp;#039;s products for sale in the US would contain more than 600 ppm of lead and that by August 14, 2009, that limit would be lowered to 300 ppm.  The final phase of the law calls for the new limit of 100 ppm to go into effect this week. Manufacturers cannot fail to meet this limit, by claiming that the lead in a product is underneath paint or a coating and therefore inaccessible to children. Some products are exempt if the lead is in a part of the product that children won&amp;#039;t be able to reach such as circuitry in electronic toys. Keep in mind that this new limit applies to all products manufactured after August 14th, 2011 and not to products that are already on shelves. Be sure to check out Good Housekeeping&amp;#039;s other articles on keeping your kids safe: How to Protect Kids from Lead Toys, GHRI Investigates: Kids&amp;#039; Slickers and GHRI Investigates: Hazardous Kids&amp;#039; Jewelry. And if you&amp;#039;re going to be in the NYC area, be sure to come and tour the GHRI Labs! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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