SENATE INVESTIGATES TOY STANDARDS IN WASHINGTON
Nancy Nord, acting Chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, testifies before a Senate Finance Services and General Government Subcommittee hearing on toy safety standards in Washington on September 12, 2007. (UPI Photo/Kevin Dietsch)
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All public pools and spas are required to have safety drain covers, and in certain circumstances, an anti-entrapment system, U.S. officials said.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Reebok International Ltd. will pay a $1 million penalty for violating the Federal Hazardous Substances Act.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has voted unanimously to propose a new mandatory standard concerning residential upholstered furniture.
Barbie and Ken have been co-opted by a group fighting against the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission, starring in an online critique of lead in toys.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released records showing industry-financed trips by employees date to at least 1998.
Democratic presidential hopeful John Edwards Wednesday urged acting U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission head Nancy Nord to resign.
Internal records from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission showed the agency's chief has taken multiple trips paid for by regulated industries.
Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, said Tuesday the head of the nation's product safety agency should step aside.
A bill that would ban lead from children's toys could help the Consumer Product Safety Commission do its job, said U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The acting chief of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is opposed to Democratic congressional attempts to strengthen the Washington agency.
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