Upholstered And Stuffed Articles Act
While unpacking our halloween decorations last week, we were sad to discover that our animatronic singing skeleton wasn’t working. We placed fresh batteries up it’s backside, slapped it around, even going so far as to call it a few choice names. Nada. Zip. It appeared that the darn thing wasn’t going to be singing Putin’ On The Ritz ever again.
This afternoon I was fiddling once again with this holiday decoration trying to will it to work when I noticed the following tag attached to it:
I’d never heard of the “Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Act” before. Curious, I called upon the wonderous powers of the internet and discovered some unusual protections that this (now repealed) act provides:
Unclean material
(2)No person shall use material that contains vermin or is unclean in the manufacture or renovation of any upholstered or stuffed article.Unsanitary stuffing
18.(1)No person shall sell or offer for sale an upholstered or stuffed article that,
(a) has been in contact with a person suffering from a communicable disease;
(b) is so soiled or in such condition as is likely to affect adversely the health of any
person; or
(c) contains vermin, unless the article has been sterilized or disinfected in the
prescribed manner.
Jeezuz…was there a huge scandal with chain store fluffy doggies and poorly-sewn carney prizes being stuffed with vermin laced rags, soiled linens, and cotton swabs soaked with communicable diseases that required this regulatory Upholstered and Stuffed Articles Act to be adopted? These seem like commonsense rules that shouldn’t require a legal act to enforce.
I remember the Tylenol scare of the 80′s, but have never heard of the giant stuffed giraffe scare of the whatevers. Was there ever such a thing?
