Congressman Charles Dent of Pennsylvania endorses the HTA's requests to the CPSC

In a November 4 letter to the CPSC, Representative Charles Dent of (R-Pennsylvania) asked the Commission

to fully consider each of the recommendations submitted by the Handmade Toy Alliance, specifically the requests to extend the existing stay of testing and certification requirements for an additional year and not prosecute makers of one-of-a-kind items for failure to test their products.

The full text of his letter appears below. We thank Representative Dent for his attention to our concerns about the CPSIA and his support for another one year stay of enforcement.


Letter to CPSC from Congressman Dent -