As a consumer, I am happy to see these standards being enforced. As a manufacturer, it’s just part of many regulations we need to follow and one of the costs of doing business. Our children deserve no less, than to be sure that any product we buy them will be safe and not impact their safety or health.

This lead issue displays the problem with any government program. Try to solve a problem and create a few more. Always with higher taxes and higher cost of non-government products/services to the end consumer/citizen. If the program fails by not producing desired results, then it still grows because super secure & high paying jobs are created in that new dept and they will not run more efficiently because they will need to submit budget requests for the next year to justify their growth and value.
The main problem is that the government is not runned like a business- no one gets fired or goes to jail for making multi-million dollar costing mistakes, so you keep getting big boys playing with other people’s money. Just raise taxes, create new taxes and print more money while deflating the real value buying power of your citizen’s current and saved money (oh yeah… another tax).

Imagine the mess if you gave me 25% or more of yours, your family and friends total income and have me sort of guess and decide what is best for you. Wow? You may have elected me, but do you have a say or time to monitor everything I do with your money?

Thank God there are great informative Blogs and concerned citizens such as yourselves watching what is happening in your area of expertise. So that for those who want to know- hello GOOGLE! We can only solve problems collectively, not with the ‘help’ of a third party that we have no two way direct communication/access/influence/accountability with.