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Making a List, Checking it Twice

As you get started on your holiday shopping this weekend–Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us–you’ll want to keep your eyes open for a lot of things: a great deal, that can’t-miss gift, a parking...

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Tumbling into a Registry

Remember when you were a kid and you really wanted nothing more than to go out and play, but your parents said you couldn’t until you cleaned your room? Did you try to get by with just shoving...

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Start Your New Year Off Right

As you turn your calendars, there are a few things you should be keeping in mind. The Commission’s stay on the enforcement of the Third-Party Testing and Certification Rule is gone as of January 1st....

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Exposing Exposure For What It Is

Last Friday the Commission unanimously reached an important, eminently practical, and pretty obvious decision: there are children’s products that have more than 100 parts per million (ppm) of lead that...

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It’s He-ere . . .

Today, the CPSC’s children’s product periodic testing and certification rule goes into effect. Perhaps the most sweeping rule in the agency’s history, it was spurred by 2008’s Consumer Product Safety...

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A Precautionary Tale

Over the weekend, I was having coffee with a long-time friend who told me about her daughter, a young woman in her early twenties who recently had her first baby. This new mother—with no college degree...

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1110 Series: If We Wanted Your Opinion…

Over the past couple days, I’ve talked about how the Commission hid the ball on costs and actively avoided clarity for product bans when we proposed to amend our certificates of compliance rule, the...

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The Use and Abuse of Voluntary Consensus Standards

The CPSC has issued several recent rules about nursery products, each of which was based on a voluntary consensus standard. Congress directed us to do so in § 104 of the Consumer Product Safety...

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Play at Your Own Risk

Recently I was up in New York and met with two insightful and smart people I want to introduce if you do not already know them. Phillip Howard is a lawyer, civic activist and the founder of an...

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Testing Assumptions

This week I had the pleasure of speaking to the leadership and staff of the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation.  The association accredits third party testing laboratories to a wide...

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Phthalates NPR: Flawed Theory Supported by Flawed Data

On March 16, 2015, the comment period will close for the CPSC’s proposed rule banning specified concentrations of phthalates in children’s toys and child care articles.  While those who make and use...

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Phthalates NPR: A No-Win for CPSC

Assuming that the Commission does not vote to again extend it, the period for filing comments on its proposal to permanently ban certain phthalates closes in a few days.  At that point the monkey will...

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Defining “Wooden-Headedness”

In The March of Folly, historian Barbara Tuchman writes: Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkable large role in government.  It consists of assessing a...

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All I Want for Christmas Is . . .

A lifetime government job.  And if the commissioners at the CPSC grant tihe pending pettion to ban certain flame retardants, the staffers working on the ban will get that wish. Earlier this month, the...

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Fighting the Magnet Wars

  This morning I watched the oral arguments before the CPSC in the staff appeal of the ALJ’s decision in the Zen Magnets case.  I felt as if I was watching World War One trench warfare in modern dress....

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