CPSC Sued For Allowing Sales of Banned Toys

The Natural Resources Defense Council and Public Citizen "have gone to court to challenge the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) decision to allow makers of children's products containing phthalates to continue selling those goods so long as they were made before a congressional ban takes effect Feb. 10," arguing that "the congressionally mandated ban should apply retroactively to inventory made before Feb. 10. But the CPSC says it shouldn't." Read more.