The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 is a United States law signed on August 14, 2008 by President George W. Bush. The legislative bill was known as HR 4040, sponsored by Congressman Bobby Rush (D-Ill.). On December 19, 2007, the U.S. House approved the bill 407-0. On March 6, 2008, the U.S. Senate approved the bill 79-13. The law—public law 110-314—increases the budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), imposes new testing and documentation requirements, and sets new acceptable levels of several substances. It imposes new requirements on manufacturers of apparel, shoes, personal care products, accessories and jewelry, home furnishings, bedding, toys, electronics and video games, books, school supplies, educational materials and science kits. The Act also increases fines and specifies jail time for some violations.
This act is seen in part controversial because of its impact to many types of businesses that did not cause the problem. Because of the wide-sweeping nature of the law, many small re-sellers will be forced to discontinue the sale of children’s products and are in risk of losing (and in some cases have already lost) their business.
CPSIA Module Overview
- Acts as a centralized CPSIA management solution for your company
- Gather, store and report on CPSIA substances
- Host roll up features from part to component to product with unlimited parent child relationships
- Identify compliance trends from your supply chain
- Enable you to extract dozens of reports on all salient information
- Enable Internal Engineers (or External Support) to input declaration assumptions into the system based on known material compositions
