CPSC's "Opportunity for Oral Comments" for Magnet Ban, such a sham.

Posted by Zen Magnets on Nov 11, 2013 in New Publication, Press Releases The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) is procedurally required to hear more arguments regarding their magnet ban. Actions show questionable intention of having meaningful dialogue with the dissenting public. Despite internal conflict within the ranks of the CPSC on the topic (of an all-ages-nationwide ban on sets of high powered magnets such as Zen Magnets or Buckyballs,) the federal...
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CPSC Continues to Gamble Reputation in Magnet Ban, Stakes Grow

Posted by Zen Magnets on Oct 31, 2013 in Featured, Press Releases The 2008 CPSC Leadership (Robert Adler and Inez Tenenbaum) have tossed the old ways of the CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) out the window and set a blazing trail of new precedents, especially in their expensive campaign to ban magnet sets typically used for art and education. The ethos of consistency and fairness earned by the agency in the previous four decades is heavily wagered in a...
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WMU Mathematics Professor Condemns CPSC and Gillibrand

Posted by Zen Magnets on Jul 25, 2013 in Letters, New Publication, Press Releases The following is a letter CC’d to Zen Magnets from David Richter.   Dear Commissioners and Senators Brown and Gillibrand, I am a professor of mathematics and I am against the ban on rare-earth magnet spheres as proposed by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. Instead of an outright ban, we should have legislation which restricts sale of magnet spheres to adults. When a child is...
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