Tell Congress to Finish the Job for Toy and Product Safety

Dear [Decision Maker]:

Toys and other consumer products that are dangerous to children are still being recalled at a record pace. Please send a strong product safety bill to the President before August break.

[Your Comments]

The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been under-funded and under-staffed for too long. It needs effective tools and sufficient resources to help ensure that dangerous toys, cribs and other hazardous products, most manufactured abroad, do not wind up on American store shelves and in our homes.

I urge you to finish the job and get the product safety bill to President Bush's desk before the August recess.

Please fight to retain:

* Testing Toys to the Latest Safety Standards: It is critical that all toys be tested and certified to comprehensive safety standards before they can be sold.

* A Ban on Certain Dangerous Chemicals, called Phthalates: The final bill includes a provision eliminating certain phthalates in children's products and child care articles, which will serve to significantly curb children's routes of exposure to these potential reproductive system toxins.

* States' Ability to Enforce Product Safety. Oppose any eleventh-hour attempts to add a new provision to prevent states from addressing new toy and product testing problems that could arise.

* A Strengthened All Terrain Vehicle Standard. We support strengthening the Senate provision that makes the voluntary standards for ATVs mandatory and requires those entities selling ATVs in the U.S. to be subject to ATV action plans. We support the inclusion of increased safety measures to make ATVs safer for all consumers.

We have waited long enough to be safer! Help make 2008 the Year of Product Safety Reform, and get the Consumer Product Safety Bill to the President's desk immediately! Thank you.