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Originally Posted by ChrisFromChicago
What toy maker went out of business? i call bull#@!
unless your talking about lead-gifts-r-us
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Third Party Testing | CPSC.gov
Any product marketed to children requires some substantial testing and/or miles of red tape. The probelm is if you make a batch of ten or batch of 50,000 it's the same rules. The testing is expensive and can cost more than what the product itself costs with small batches and that is before you even get into the costs and time involved with remaining compliant. The larger manufacturers can spread those costs over the entire batch which has little affect on them.
You can choose to break the law, circumvent it by not labeling your product for kids or give up.
This is not something that is specific to this industry, the ever increasing amount regulations and laws governing business can put a huge burden on small business and enterprise. Going back to 2000 in my area they had what were commonly called "bootleg" mines, these weren't illegal but that is what they called them. Small operations usually run by families that were the safest in the country. These were fourth, fifth and sixth generation miners doing a specific type of mining that no one knew better. MSHA came in and started applying rules and regulations governing larger mines some of which were actually a hazard as this is not your typical soft coal mine they were intended to regulate. On top of that the costs were astronomical leaving them no option but to close.
There is a laundry list of situations like this no matter what industry making it increasingly difficult to keep a small business operating.
Do you want nasty chemicals in hand made soap? No, but we don't want to put so much burden on small business they can't make a profit either. If you're going to be buying soap from someone at flea market buyer beware and that should be the end of it.
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