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Magazine report on CPSC failures ignites controversy.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-JAN-05 		Format: Online - approximately 995 words
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Full Article Title: Magazine report on CPSC failures ignites controversy.(Consumer Product Safety Commission)

Article Excerpt
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is not doing enough to protect U.S. consumers from dangerous and defective products or to prevent banned products from being shipped abroad, according to a recent investigative report published in Consumer Reports. (Hazard in Aisle 5, CONSUMER REE, Nov 9004, at 12.)

The magazine, published by the product-safety advocacy group Consumers Union, called on Congress to increase the CPSC's budget and regulatory power.

The report was based on a review of decades of government records and visits to more than a dozen stores in five states. "Potentially lethal products"--including defective extension cords and toys that can choke, cut, or poison young children--are finding their way to store shelves here and abroad, investigators found. They cited a weakened regulatory system as the primary cause.

The CPSC challenged the report as false and misleading, taking specific aim at the investigators' finding that 48 of...

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