Connecticut aims for limit on cadmium in children's jewellery
Pubdate : 2014-10-16 Source : chemical watch Writer : CIRS
A Connecticut task force will issue a report in January, recommending limits on the amount of cadmium manufacturers can include in children's jewellery — about five years after the state passed restrictions.
“I would like to go to the lowest possible limit that does not hamstring business and still protects children,” says Representative Diana Urban, who heads the state's Committee on Children.
Ms Urban sponsored a bill in 2010 to prohibit children's jewellery containing more than .0075% by weight of cadmium from being sold, offered for sale or distributed in Connecticut from 2014. That bill became law, but was put on hold before the restrictions went into effect. The task force will issue recommendations early next year, and Ms Urban says she will then propose another bill.
She says the Committee on Children “will be putting a bill out. We will take the task force's recommendation [into] consideration, but everything I have heard so far has only firmed up my commitment to protecting children.”
The task force's recommendations are due by 15 January 2015.
“I would like to go to the lowest possible limit that does not hamstring business and still protects children,” says Representative Diana Urban, who heads the state's Committee on Children.
Ms Urban sponsored a bill in 2010 to prohibit children's jewellery containing more than .0075% by weight of cadmium from being sold, offered for sale or distributed in Connecticut from 2014. That bill became law, but was put on hold before the restrictions went into effect. The task force will issue recommendations early next year, and Ms Urban says she will then propose another bill.
She says the Committee on Children “will be putting a bill out. We will take the task force's recommendation [into] consideration, but everything I have heard so far has only firmed up my commitment to protecting children.”
The task force's recommendations are due by 15 January 2015.
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