"The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act is intended to protect children by mandating the testing of toys and other children’s products for lead. Good idea, right? But the law is vaguely-worded, and as written requires the testing of
books for lead as well. This expensive and destructive testing could have serious implications for bookstores and libraries. Alternatives to testing include
banning children under 12 from libraries to keep them safe."
http://www.sarahgoslee.com/2009/01/2...-the-children/
According to
Forbes:
Quote:
TSince the law does not exempt books, children's' sections at libraries and bookstores will, at minimum, face price hikes on newly acquired titles and, at worse, may have to rethink older holdings.
After all, no one has the slightest idea how many future violations lie hidden in the stacks and few want to play a guessing game about how seriously officialdom will view illegality. "Either they take all the children's books off the shelves," Associate Executive Director Emily Sheketoff of the American Library Association told the Boston Phoenix, "or they ban children from the library."
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Ebook, anyone?