By Deborah Newell Tornello
aka litbrit
Lawmakers, including the tenacious Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill), grill Nancy Nord (of the Consumer Product Safety Commission), demanding to know why lead-laden children's toys and jewelry are still arriving in the United States.
Sen.Dick. Durbin (D-Ill.) charged that the CPSC was not aggressive enoughin stopping unsafe toys and children's jewelry manufactured in Chinafrom entering the U.S.
He said the agency never obtainedinformation on shipments of the Chinese products so that it couldinspect to see whether many of the products had lead paint in them.
