NHS management breathed a sign of relief when the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to postpone by one year a new federal law that would have required products made for children 12 and under to be tested for lead starting Feb. 10, 2009.
But that relief came after NHS’s owner Richard Novak had already laid off 17 employees because of sagging sales and worries about the new regulations.
A victory for good sense,” said Tim Piumarta, director of research and new product development at NHS, a Santa Cruz company with sales of $23 million a year. “This untenable legislation, as it was written by non-scientists in Congress, threw the entire global product supply channel into mass confusion.”
NHS and many other companies will now have a year to work out the lead details before complaining about it again next year.
[Link: San Jose Mercury News]
Someone give T-Bone a job. Dudes legit.
yeah t bone
thats lame novak can afford to weather the storm, the guy owns half of sc
not only does he own half of SC, but some of the most prime realistate that little area has to offer. he could employ all 17 of those poor bubs, for a few years (cuz most of them get paid shit) if he sold just one of his properties…
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