On Feb. 10, 2009, a new law regulating lead content in certain products, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, is scheduled to go into effect. The unreasonable timeline for implementation would severly impact the sale of youth-model off-highway vehicles, harming independently owned dealers and negatively affect youth motorcycle and ATV safety.<\/p>\n
On Feb. 2, the AMA Government Relations Department wrote the following letter to the Consumer Product Safety Commission regarding this issue.\u00c2\u00a0 On Feb. 10, 2009, a new law regulating lead content in certain products, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, is scheduled to go into effect. The unreasonable timeline for implementation would severly impact the sale of youth-model off-highway vehicles, harming independently owned dealers and negatively affect youth motorcycle and ATV safety. On Feb. 2, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,8,44,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motocross","category-motorcycle","category-new-motorcycle-products-tests","category-off-road-dirt-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47401,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368\/revisions\/47401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFebruary 2, 2009
\nActing Chairman Nancy Nord
\nCommissioner Thomas Moore
\nU.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission…\u00c2\u00a0 More info<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"