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Since KID was founded, we have looked at information from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on recall effectiveness. As part of every recall, Monthly Corrective Action Reports are to be filed, detailing how many consumers have participated in the… Read More

Friday, the President signed H.R. 2715 which amends the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) to address specific implementation issues that arose since it passed in 2008.  After legislation that would gut key safety provisions was introduced but stalled, Congress… Read More

It seems some battles are never-ending.  Despite launching in a timely and cost-effective manner, the CPSC’s SaferProducts.gov is still under attack.  The House Appropriations Committee has passed a spending bill that defunds the database.  Saferproducts.gov is a database that allows… Read More

A handful of retailers and their champion, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission(CPSC) Commissioner Anne Northup, are crying out about this week’s historic new tough standard and ‘stop sale’ on unsafe cribs.  They found themselves ‘stuck’ with cribs that couldn’t meet… Read More

It’s been a long time coming, but starting today – all cribs sold in the US must meet tough new standards – giving parents peace of mind so they can get some sleep too!  From KID’s founding until the passage… Read More

As we prepared for the June 28, 2011 implementation of the new strong crib standard from CPSC, we were shocked to hear that at the 11th hour some wanted to put the brakes on the new standard — delaying implementation… Read More

Update #2: (5/31/11) The House Energy and Commerce Committee never did get around to voting last week on this measure.  And it looks like they won’t this week either and then have a break next week.  So that gives us… Read More

On March 11, 2011, the new publicly accessible database of consumer product incidents began accepting reports.  And around April 1, the first of those reports were through the vetting process and posted online.  We thought the one month point after… Read More

In 2008, parents of children injured or killed by unsafe juvenile products rejoiced when the Danny Keysar Child Product Safety Notification Act was included in the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and signed into law. This portion of the CPSIA… Read More

Chicago Tribune reporter Ellen Gabler has published an article exposing the Consumer Safety Product Commission’s (CPSC) less than adequate job of investigating the role that crib bumper pads play in infant suffocation. The article reported that there have been 17… Read More