Clark has been receiving a lot of questions about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA), which goes into effect Feb. 10, 2009.

The CPSIA will require testing of children's toys and clothing for dangerous amounts of lead and phthalates. As a side-note, the single most dangerous category is costume jewelry for young girls.

Charities, yard sales and second-hand stores are beginning to worry that they'll be driven out of business overnight when the CPSIA goes into effect. After all, there are fines of $100,000 per violation if a potentially dangerous toy or article of clothing is sold.

But now, the thrift stores and others can breathe a sigh of relief -- testing won't be required of them. As Clark says, the problem is not with thrift stores or church sales, it's with the major retail chains who buy high-production volume goods.

The Consumer Product Safety Commission will be charged with enforcing the CPSIA. They've been mum so far on the question of whether small businesses that make handcrafts will be put out of business by the CPSIA. But again, Clark wants to emphasize that the reality is the CPSIA was not written with small business in mind. It's more for the Wal-Marts, Targets and Toys R' Uses of the world.