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  • Some frustrated with lead mandates (Nanny state control of our lives from books to dirtbikes!)

    02/09/2009 7:10:32 AM PST · by StarCMC · 67 replies · 3,262+ views
    St. Joe News ^ | February 4, 2009 | Jimmy Myers
    With Congress saying “get the lead out,” local retailers and librarians are wondering if common sense gets chucked along with it. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, which goes into effect Feb. 10, is meant to protect children from lead-laden products. But when the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission gave libraries two options, get rid of all your children’s books or ban anyone under 12 from entering the library, librarians across the country waited for the punch line. But it never came. “I was speechless,” said Mary Beth Revels, director of the St. Joseph Public Library. “To know it wasn’t...