Posted on 08/18/2009 8:22:53 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion
A federal law banning lead and other toxic substances in products for children 12 and under has raised new concerns. Some libraries have pulled children's books that were printed before 1986 because lead was used in printer's ink before then.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the chances of those books containing lead harmful to children is low. At least two libraries didn't want to take any chances and removed the books from their shelves.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission interprets the new federal law to include books but hasn't weighed in on whether older books could cause harm to children. A spokesperson for the CPSC first said that more testing needs to be done to determine whether the books are safe and, until then, that librarians at the more than 116,000 public and school libraries needed to take precautions to ensure children were not further exposed to the older books.
Then a clarification was made to that statement that said librarians should not be encouraged to remove the books because the lead-based ink should not be considered harmful. However, the CPSC is currently investigating the ink older books contain and adds that the real concern would be if a child were to put one of these books containing lead-based ink into his mouth.
The Dems treat the Constitution like lead-based ink was used to write it. Coincidence?
LOL. But sad, too.
It would seem to me that the problem could be abated by laminating the pages.
Lead has NOTHING to do with the motivation.
The objective is to get everything with a moral value system off of the shelf, while maintaining all of the “no consequences for our actions” crapola.
The libraries that are pulling the books are probably lawsuit-shy.
This is ludicrous.
All us senior citizens who practically lived in the library growing up never had any bad effects from library books.
FReepers are right—this is the Dem Congress’s equivalent of the Nazi book burnings.
The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA H.R. 4040) of 2008
That would be W. Bush's Fault!
So if one child went on an eating binge and consumed an entire library full of books printed before 1987, they MIGHT have enough lead in their system to show ultra minute quantities in their blood - MAYBE. Of course, if a child were to eat hundreds (or even thousands) of books, I think he/she has bigger problems than trace lead.
This brought to you by the same liberal wack-os that brought us Cap and Trade.
I don’t think I ever thought a book looked tasty enough to eat.
What sheep.
Lead???!!! Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad.
Heather Has Two Mommies??
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooood.
\sarc
Bears repeating - particularly for the "Bushbots" still active on FR...
And thanks, libs, for destruction of TRADITION too. For if all books printed before 1986 are tossed, you may as well have a book-burning. I think this law is as vile as they come. It is not in any way done to protect children. Out goes — Little Black Sambo (altho I hoard my copy, thank you anyway), any references to Christianity, the old Encyclopedias which tell the TRUTH about our great country and Western civ, etc. We need to buy these books up. or something.
That’s basically the “cover up for China’s incompetent safety standard enforcement act.”
And these are some of the same folks wailing about the preservation and deterioration of centuries old texts (ones which don’t have salient remarks about America and morality, that is).
This is how Fahrenheit 451 really happens.
I’m sure only “select” and “especially dangerous” books will be removed from the shelves.
Books about two mommies or two daddies for little Timmy will be “safe”.
bingo
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