since congress passed the cpsia. thanks to your leadership, we now have five commissioners and an agency that is more fully funded. the cpsia was indeed a wakeup call for the agency. and for many in the business community to tighten their own product safety regimes. but the cpsia also created extraordinary problems for competency who are already doing the right thing in ensuring product safety and many cases, those problems came with little gain for public safety. with an eye to maximizing public health and safety, it is our hope with the legislative amendment, continued congressional oversight and continued dialog between the agency, industry, and other product safety stakeholders we can create a stable, predictable risk-based regulatory environment. thank you again for providing us this opportunity to testify. i'm available to take any questions. >> thank you. >> dr. gardener? >> good morning. my name is dr. garry gardener. and i'm proud to represent the american academy of pediatrics at this hearing today. the aap

put simply, the cpsia makes no allowances for one of a kind items. third, my fellow board member randy hertzler family business focuses on often hard to find toys primarily imported from the european union. these toys that represented 44% of its sales in 2006 to 2007 have disappeared from the u.s. market all together because of the cpsia's lack of alignment with european standards. many quality european toy companies will no longer sell like randy. he fears he will lit date and close in 2011. we find it hard to believe that it was congress' intent with the cpsia to remove products and businesses like these from the marketplace. while they have worked closely with the cpsia submitting comments to pending rules and sponsored workshops, regular email and phone contact with cpsc staff we feel strongly that the current legislation does not grant the cpsc the flexibility to address our members needs. we have offered a number of suggestions that we feel will ensure the safety of children's products yet amend the cpsia to be more workable for the business we