ACTION ALERT from the Toy Industry Association:
Ban on Certain Toys and Children’s Products Proposed in California
Will set Precedent for Legislation NOT Based on Science

Call or write your CA legislators today! Click here to view a letter to Governor Schwarzenegger from Louis W. Sullivan, M.D. Click here to go to a website and use “Find My District” to find the name and contact info of your local legislators. Click here to find a sample letter to customize and send to your local legislator or Click here to use an automatic form letter specific to this bill.

Help us to stop a bill that is currently moving through the California Legislature -- one that, if passed, would significantly harm the toy industry’s ability to do business in California. Assembly Bill 1108 would ban a wide range of consumer products intended for use by children. It has already made it through two committees and is scheduled to go to the Assembly floor very soon.

The banned products would include vinyl toys containing any of six phthalates. Phthalates are used to make vinyl soft and flexible, durable and affordable, enhancing the safety of the product. Phthalates have been widely studied, including a rigorous four-year study by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) that found “no demonstrated health risk” to children from DINP, the phthalate most commonly used in toys.

Supporters of the bill have ignored phthalates’ safe track record and are attempting to ban products based on fear and emotion – rather than sound science – and this misinformation is providing the bill momentum.

We urgently need the help of all members of the toy industry to help to defeat this bill. We ask that you to take a stand for what is right, based on science, and speak out against legislation that attempts to ignore the demonstrated safety of a product. If you do business in California, let your local state legislator know that you are in opposition to this bill and the impact it would have on the industry. Tell your legislator that this bill must not become law. If the bill passes, it could lead to a patchwork of similar state and local laws that are random and arbitrary and hurt your business while not improving the safety of products.

Don’t make or sell products that contain phthalates?? We still need your help. Take a stand against this legislation and the dangerous precedent it sets.