Posts Tagged ‘Consumer safety’

A GIFT FOR “GIFT TRAVEL”

November 2, 2007

The Consumer Product Safety Commission Road Show
Turns out that Santa isn’t the only one who combines toys and traveling. Nancy A. Nord, head of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has been traveling the world on the dime of toy makers and other manufacturers she’s supposed to be regulating. Looks like someone might end up on [...]

REDEFINING SAFETY

October 30, 2007

Helping the free market poison consumers
While California tightens consumer safety laws, banning testes-shriveling chemicals in children’s product, insuring that “California’s kids” will, in the delicate formulation of Will Swaim, “get bigger junk”, the head of the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission is fighting to shrink its proposed budget, so that the agency will remain as [...]

 

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