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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Stuck in Neutral |
| Published: October 27, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Stuck, Neutral, Kazuma Meerkat, Jason Tsai, Specialty Vehicle Institute Of America, Jeff Boudreaux, Pamela Gilbert, Scott Wolfson, China, United States, Arizona, Texas, The Washington Post Company, Ann Brown, Hal Stratton, Jim Helmkamp, Long Chang, Paul Gift, Rachel Wei |
| In June, the Consumer Product Safety Commission issued an unusual warning about a four-wheel all-terrain vehicle designed for children, calling it "defective and dangerous." |
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| Industries Paid for Top Regulators' Travel |
| Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Industries, Paid, For, Top, Regulators, Travel, Hal Stratton, Nancy Nord, China, New Orleans, Steve Coronado, Ann Brown, South Carolina, Hilton Head Island, Joan Lawrence, Julie Vallese, Pam Gilbert, Defense Research Institute, Spain, Toy Industry Association Inc, U S Office |
| The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by ... |
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| Industries Paid for Top Regulators' Travel |
| Published: November 2, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Industries, Paid, For, Top, Regulators, Travel, Hal Stratton, Nancy Nord, China, New Orleans, Steve Coronado, Ann Brown, South Carolina, Hilton Head Island, Joan Lawrence, Julie Vallese, Pam Gilbert, Defense Research Institute, Spain, Toy Industry Association Inc, U S Office |
| The chief of the Consumer Product Safety Commission and her predecessor have taken dozens of trips at the expense of the toy, appliance and children's furniture industries and others they regulate, according to internal records obtained by The Washington Post. Some of the trips were sponsored by ... |
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| Safety Agency Requests Review of Travel Policy |
| Published: November 3, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Safety, Agency, Requests, Review, Travel, Policy, Nancy Nord, Dick Durbin, Hal Stratton, The White House, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, The Washington Post Company, Amy Klobuchar, Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Caucus, U S Office Of Government Ethics |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission chief Nancy Nord yesterday requested an outside review of her agency's travel policies after a report detailing dozens of trips paid by manufacturers' groups for her and her predecessor stoked outrage in Congress. |
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| Safety Agency Requests Review of Travel Policy |
| Published: November 3, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Safety, Agency, Requests, Review, Travel, Policy, Nancy Nord, Dick Durbin, Hal Stratton, The White House, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, The Washington Post Company, Amy Klobuchar, Rahm Emanuel, Democratic Caucus, U S Office Of Government Ethics |
| Consumer Product Safety Commission chief Nancy Nord yesterday requested an outside review of her agency's travel policies after a report detailing dozens of trips paid by manufacturers' groups for her and her predecessor stoked outrage in Congress. |
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| CPSC's Ethics-Review Process For Travel Criticized by Experts |
| Published: November 6, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Cpsc S, Ethics Review, Process, For, Travel, Criticized, Experts, Hal Stratton, Nancy Nord, Page Faulk, John G Mullan, Ross Koeser, China, Toy Industry Association Inc, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, United States, Pennsylvania, Intercontinental Mark Hopkins H |
| Top officials at the Consumer Product Safety Commission repeatedly took costly trips at industry expense after internal reviews that ethics experts say were weak and superficial, including one instance in which the agency's ethics official traveled with the commission chairman as a guest of a... |
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| Consumer Agency's Recent 'Gift Travel' May Spur a Ban |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Consumer, Agency S, Recent, Gift, Travel, May, Spur, Ban, Alan Schoem, Ann Brown, Nancy A Nord, China, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Charles Schumer, Claire Mccaskill, Hal Stratton, Los Angeles, Mary Sheila Gall, Orlando Florida, Palm |
| Records newly released by the Consumer Product Safety Commission demonstrate that its employees traveled on industry-financed trips dating at least to 1998, demonstrating a wider use of "gift travel" than previously known. |
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| Consumer Agency's Recent 'Gift Travel' May Spur a Ban |
| Published: November 8, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Consumer, Agency S, Recent, Gift, Travel, May, Spur, Ban, Alan Schoem, Ann Brown, Nancy A Nord, China, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Charles Schumer, Claire Mccaskill, Hal Stratton, Los Angeles, Mary Sheila Gall, Orlando Florida, Palm |
| Records newly released by the Consumer Product Safety Commission demonstrate that its employees traveled on industry-financed trips dating at least to 1998, demonstrating a wider use of "gift travel" than previously known. |
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| Taking Lead Safety Into Its Own Hands |
| Published: November 10, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: Taking, Lead, Safety, Into, Its, Own, Hands, California, Michael Green, Center For Environmental Health, Charles Margulis, Frederick Locker, San Francisco, Apple Iphone, Illinois, Apple Inc, Macy S Inc, Wal Mart Stores Inc, Andrew Cuomo, Baltimore, Hal Stratton, Joshua M Shar |
| When a California public-interest group decided that regulators in Washington were ignoring hazardous lead in children's lunchboxes, it pursued the case on its own and forced several manufacturers to get the lead out of their products. |
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| There She Goes, Flying Off to Japan |
| Published: November 23, 2007, 12:00 am |
| Tags: There, She, Goes, Flying, Off, Japan, Nancy Nord, Julie Vallese, Hal Stratton, Ministry Of Economy Technology And Industry, The Washington Post Company, Elizabeth Williamson, Quin Dodd, Japanese National Institute Of Technology And Evaluation, U S Consumer Product S |
| It's Black Friday, the end of a dark week for the Consumer Product Safety Commission, which issued more hazardous-product recalls, fended off continuing criticism and issued its own guide to an ever-shorter list of safe holiday gifts for children. |
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