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CPSC Prevents More Than 360,000 Violative Units from Reaching Consumers in 2nd Quarter of Fiscal Year 2012

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigators continued to enforce product safety by screening more than 3,700 imported products at ports of entry into the United States and preventing more than 360,000 units of 319 different violative and hazardous imported products from reaching the hands of consumers during the second quarter of fiscal year 2012.

Continuing to top the list of products stopped were children's products containing levels of lead exceeding the federal limits. This was also the leading category of products stopped in the first quarter.

Toys and other articles with small parts that present a choking hazard for children younger than 3 years old also continued to be prominent in the second quarter.

For exported product to USA, LEO-MTS can offer testing of children products, children toys safety standards, LEO - MTS has been authorized by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that the CPSC identification number: 1331. And some parts of the accepted scope as below (for all scope please click: http://www.cpsc.gov/cgi-bin/LabSearch/ViewLab.aspx?LabID=1331):
16 CFR Part 1303, Lead Paint
16 CFR Part 1501, Small Parts Regulation
16 CFR Part 1510, Rattles
CPSC-CH-C1001-09.3 and/or GB/T 22048-2008, Determination of Phthalates
CPSC-CH-E1001-08 and/or CPSC-CH-E1001-08.1, Lead in Children's Metal Products
CPSC-CH-E1002-08 and/or CPSC-CH-E1002-08.1, Lead in Non-Metal Children's Products

For additional information of the report:
http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml12/12231.html?tab=news