The Bush administration responds to consumer product-safety concerns, including recent reports of "a raft of tainted and dangerous products manufactured both domestically and abroad. In the last two months alone, more than 13 million toys have been recalled after tests indicated lead levels that sometimes reached almost 200 times the safety limit."

The response? "The nation’s top official for consumer product safety has asked Congress in recent days to reject legislation intended to strengthen the agency...Nancy A. Nord, the acting chairwoman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, has asked lawmakers in two letters not to approve the bulk of legislation that would increase the agency’s authority, double its budget and sharply increase its dwindling staff."

More: "Some of Ms. Nord's complaints were similar to the ones that business groups and manufacturers have raised, including that the legislation would be unnecessarily burdensome. But in other areas, like whistle-blower protection, her complaints went beyond those of industry."

Comments

[x-ray fluorescence]

Hey,
Its necessary to consider consumer product-safety concerns.Lead creating more problems in children toys..

[Beelzebubba]

easy solution - informed consumers do not put poison into their children's mouths.....problem - public schools creating a class of consumers who believe the government will protect them since they pledged allegiance to a cloth of a metaphysical state and metempsychosis induced by the "under god" clause. They thought of everything. The Thai guy was right..we're Phuced.