Your kid licked a battery terminal lately? Sucked on a Schrader valve?rnNeither has Jason Home's son Logan, but when Mr. Home took the family's Polaris ATV into his local dealer for servicing, he was turned away, told it was now illegal for the shop to sell or work on minibikes and small all-terrain vehicles.rnFor that you can thank the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, enacted last fall and put into effect February 10. The law had noble intentions-to protect children from lead content in toys following the recall of millions of Chinese-made items-and was overwhelmingly passed by Congress. It imposes a tough new lead-content limit of 600 parts per million for any prod-uct intended for children under 12.
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