I am still reading and researching, although we have made our decision to cut out kids barring last minute amendments that change our mind, because my mind is stupified by this legislation and it's a quieter time of year. But I think (reserving the right to change that as I am certainly no authority on this either) if one can afford to purchase or lease an analyzer to analyze the stuff in your store and your take in and print out the results in a format that CPSC approves you could still sell the stuff manufactured prior to the turnover dates that passed the tests/are below the new lead limits. As I understand it (again qualifying it here) stuff manufactured before the turnover dates does not have to be tested by an independent third party lab which gets really expensive, just tested to the new CPSC standard. The problem as I see it is that a niton analyzer to do it yourself costs big money to buy - not sure exactly as none of the manufacturers I found were publishing their prices, although I found one that will lease them on a monthly basis, long term, for about $800 a month. You'd have to either being doing major volume or increase your prices alot to cover just the leasing costs - then there's the labor cost factor etc.

But, I may be entirely wrong too! This is such poorly written legislation with no clear, concise help forthcoming for everyone's myriad questions.

Yes, Niecy Marie, if we were solely kids resale either b&m or online in the US I would be panicking too and trying to decide how and when to proceed - and the timeframe.