FHCE 5100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fasttrack, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Playskool
7 Nov 2017
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Toddler trapped and killed by a collapsing playskool travel-lite portable crib: safety violation: crib collapsed on baby trapping the baby in the v-shaped wedge on the crib rails. This particular crib had been recalled 5 years earlier due to 4 other deaths. In total 1 in every 2000 cribs sold killed a child. Manufacturers are supposed to alert the cpsc about injuries/deaths (company self-reports) Main source of information is really: hospital reports, newspaper reports, lawsuits, tattle-tales (ratting out the competition) Cpsc has ability to recall a product but cannot hold manufacturers responsible for getting all of the products off shelves/out of homes. Force them to do a joint press release. Independent regulatory agency headed by a chairman and four commissioners (appointed: protect consumers against unnecessary risks or injury/death related to consumer products, 15000 categories. Has authorit(cid:455) to : set mandatory standards. No that is not how a pencil performs: measured in objective units, example:
