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• U.S. and China agree on toy safety improvements

  Published: September 11, 2007, 11:02 am

  Tags: Childrens Product Safety, Childrens Products, Childrensproducts, Childrensproductsafety, China Exports, China Made Toys, China Toys, Chinaexports, Chinamadetoys, Chinatoys, Chinese, Chinese Manufactured Products, Chinese Toys, Chinesemanufacturedproducts, Chinesetoys

  never' category, a "Consumer Product Safety Summit" was held in Washington, D.C. today to address the issue of lead paint in Chinese-manufactured toys. As a result of the discussions, an agreement was reached between China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety

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• Graco Baby Cribs Recalled

  Published: September 22, 2007, 1:17 pm

  Tags: General News, Consumer Product Safety, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Crib, Cribs, Graco Crib Recall, Graco Recall

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• Kolcraft Recall List

  Published: September 27, 2007, 1:09 pm

  Tags: Health, General News, 10 Month Old Baby, Consumer Product Safety, Kolcraft, Kolcraft Recall, Pack N Play Recall, Play Yard Recall, Recall, Strangulation Hazard, Suffocation

  in China, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said. They say a restraint strap beneath the changing table forms a loop, posing the risk of strangulation. The child is also at risk of suffocation if they get trapped underneath the cradle. (more…) copyright @2007 Bu.bulicio.us 10 month old baby, consumer product safety,

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• Product Recall: 425,000 Kolcraft Play Yards

  Published: September 27, 2007, 11:32 am

  Tags: Changing Table, Changingtable, Children, Kids Product Recall, Kidsproductrecall, Kolcraft Recall, Kolcraftrecall, Play Yard, Play Yard Recall, Playyard, Playyardrecall, Product Recall, Product Safety, Productrecall, Productsafety, Travel Play Yard Recall, Travelplayyardr

  under: Gear, Health and Safety, Children's furniture, Cribs and cradles, Changing tableThe U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and Kolcraft Enterprises Inc. have announced the voluntary recall of about 425,000 infant play yards after the death of a 10-month old boy who strangled on the changing table's restraint strap that was

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• 21M pounds of Topps frozen hamburger patties recalled

  Published: September 29, 2007, 7:05 pm

  Tags: Health, Product Safety

  pounds of ground beef products of the Topps Meat Co., which is based in Elizabeth.Authorities are investigating 22 cases of E. coli in a number of states ranging from Maine to Florida and from New Jersey to Indiana.All packages with a 'sell by' or 'use by' date between September 25, 2007 and September 25, 2008 and packed by 'EST 9748'

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• Food and Product Safety: Beijing has No Control

  Published: October 12, 2007, 10:01 am

  Tags: China, Beijing, Congress, Fda, Food Drug Administration, Food Safety, News, Politics, Product Safety

  There is simple no way the Chinese government can have control of food and product safety, the Food and Drug Administration told a congressional committee yesterday.David Nelson, one read more

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• Product Safety Chief Sees Setbacks in Senate Bill

  Published: October 26, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Product, Safety, Chief, Sees, Setbacks, Senate, Bill, Mark Pryor, Nancy Nord, Daniel Inouye, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission

  The chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission says a Senate bill that would more than double the agency's budget and expand its authority would be too difficult for the agency to implement and "put the American people at greater risk."

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• Consumer Product Safety Commission chief urged to resign

  Published: October 31, 2007, 1:30 pm

  Tags: China, Chinese Toys, Chinesetoys, Cpsc, Democrats, Lead Paint, Leadpaint, Nancy Nord, Nancy Pelosi, Nancynord, Nancypelosi, Product Safety Bill, Productsafetybill, Safe Toys, Safetoys, Toy Safety, Toy Tester, Toysafety, Toytester

  in China. And of all the product recalls made by the CPSC, more than half are of products originating in China. Congress is working to introduce new toy and child product safety legislation, the "Comprehensive Consumer Product Safety Bill", which would ban lead from children's products and paint, require mandatory testing of such products by

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• China Likens Tainted Food Response to (Disastrous) SARS Inaction

  Published: November 2, 2007, 5:43 am

  Tags: China, Center For Disease Control, Centers For Disease Control, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Deadly, Disease Control, Food Safety, Lead Paint, News, Poison, Politics, Product Safety, Propaganda, Sars, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, Wu Yi

  China said yesterday it needed to tackle the year-long food and product safety scandals as it tackled the SARS outbreak more than four years ago. That reponse was a total disaster. read more

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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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• U.S. Plans Tougher Inspection Of Imports

  Published: November 7, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Plans, Tougher, Inspection, Imports, The White House, United States, Food And Drug Administration, Edmund Mierzwinski, George W Bush, U S Consumer Product Safety Commission, Cal Dooley, Chris Waldrop, Diana Degette, Gaithersburg, Mark Pryor, Michael Leavitt, Rober

  Following recent recalls of Chinese-made tires, toothpaste and toys, the Bush administration yesterday announced a plan to improve the safety of what Americans buy and eat by intervening before imports reach the United States.

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• Chinese produced Bindeez offer good playtime fun and a good buzz to boot

  Published: November 7, 2007, 10:32 am

  Tags: China, Austrailia, Bindeez, Company, Corruption, Health, Manufacture, Product, Safety, Scandal

  According to the company website, Moose Enterprises has undertaken a voluntary recall of Moose's Bindeez after some children who had swallowed th read more

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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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