{"id":4814,"date":"2009-02-02T08:36:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T16:36:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4814"},"modified":"2009-02-02T09:19:45","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T17:19:45","slug":"nhs-layoffs-and-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4814","title":{"rendered":"NHS Layoffs And Lead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090201-css157c091-gallery.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090201-css157c091-gallery.jpg','popup','width=400,height=256,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/20090201-css157c091-gallery-tm.jpg\" height=\"128\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"20090201  Css157C09~1 Gallery\" \/><\/a><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhs-inc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NHS<\/a><\/strong> 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. <\/p>\n<p>But that relief came after NHS&#8217;s owner <strong>Richard Novak<\/strong> had already laid off 17 employees because of sagging sales and worries about the new regulations.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A victory for good sense,&#8221; said <strong>Tim Piumarta<\/strong>, director of research and new product development at NHS, a Santa Cruz company with sales of $23 million a year. &#8220;This untenable legislation, as it was written by non-scientists in Congress, threw the entire global product supply channel into mass confusion.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>NHS and many other companies will now have a year to work out the lead details before complaining about it again next year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/centralcoast\/ci_11607387?nclick_check=1\" target=\"_blank\">San Jose Mercury News<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s owner Richard Novak had already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4822,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4814\/revisions\/4822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}