This is one of the most misguided and arrogant decrees that i have ever heard. as i further research this issue i cannot escape the thought that this is a boon to the manufacturing, importing and distributing industries. this law has provided the ground work for removing person to person trade and a cash-less society. you will only be able to purchase goods from large scale distributors, like wal-mart, because they will be the only groups that can afford to test goods en-masse. Most likely they will have to acquire testing labs of their own to be cost effective and put a corporate stranglehold on a niche market . I am sure that there are not enough hazardous waste testing labs operating in the nation to keep up with normal rates of testing much less a flood of test requests for the 40 years of phthalates containing that are products floating around the country.
How far are we from swat raids on neighborhood yard sales? and for what reason? To protect the children or to protect corporate market dominance?