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Don’t let them hijack safety — attempts to gut CPSC funding for critical safety measures
Posted on February 16, 2011Amendments to vital funding measures are currently being considered in the US House of Representatives that would gut key safety provisions of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act. Under threat is the funding for the public database that is set… Read More
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A look back before tomorrow’s historic CPSC crib vote
Posted on December 14, 2010As we posted last week, the CPSC will vote tomorrow on new mandatory standards for full-size and non-full-size cribs. The standards, if adopted, will be the strongest crib standards in the world. This in the country that has had to… Read More
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A week of progress on crib safety
Posted on January 21, 2010I’ve been in Washington, DC this week to work on crib safety. Up first, two days of an ASTM (voluntary standard setting body) meeting at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on beefing up the voluntary standard that has governed… Read More