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Product-safety database under multiple attacks

The law gave CPSC new authority to regulate unsafe products but businesses say it is overly burdensome. A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee is considering draft legislation to restrict who can submit reports to the database, improve how products are ...

In defense of old-school light bulbs

Bulb-eating geeks, don't say I didn't warn you. If you just can't resist the urge to eat a light bulb, I say stick to the mercury-free ones, mix a few slabs of cornbread in with the broken glass and wash it all down with buttermilk.

High-Risk Medical Devices Fail to Get Full Review, GAO Says

Regulators also don’t routinely analyze trends in device recalls or ensure that companies make promised fixes in the prescribed time frame, increasing the risk that unsafe products linger on the market, the GAO found. Eighty-one percent of the 113 ...

Peachtree Planning Corp.: Top Small Workplace

Noted financial consultant Bob Ball is soon working the room, telling his captive audience, “You have to be much, much different” in a field whose reputation has been damaged by financially unsafe products and unsound planning. Ball discourages ...

Anapol Schwartz Foundation to Honor Spinal Cord Injury Advocate

as well as Cherry Hill, N.J., Wheeling, W.Va., and Scottsdale, AZ. The firm has represented consumers in matters ranging from dangerous prescription drugs and medical negligence to unsafe products and hazardous work site cases.

Mona Charen: Obama’s Demagoguery

I never felt so simpatico with Joe Biden as I did after President Obama’s Great Deficit Speech. Ol’ lunch-bucket Joe seemed to doze off during the president’s oration. Perhaps he only appeared to be snoozing. But I can report that your faithful ...

Trig Trutherism: The definitive debunker

Trig Trutherism, the surprisingly resilient conspiracy theory that Sarah Palin is not actually the mother of 3-year-old Trig Palin, is experiencing a boomlet thanks to a new academic paper that endorses the concept. Long pursued by the blogger Andrew ...

Do food dyes cause hyperactivity?

The Food and Drug Administration will hear a panel today to examine a possible link between artificial food coloring and hyperactivity in children. Though no one actually expects the FDA to ban the dyes, the panel provides a great opportunity for reporters ...

Without the Campaign Donors, This Wouldn’t Be Possible

His contributions to the House Republicans’ budget-slashing legislation included two top priorities of Koch Industries: killing off funds for the Obama administration’s new database for consumer complaints about unsafe products and for a registry of ...

Hidden Food Dyes: Five Surprise Grocery Store Items to Keep Away from Your Kids

Allowing the use of artificial dyes violates the FDA's mandate to protect consumers from unsafe products. It also runs afoul of the agency's mandate to crack down on food that has been made "to appear better or of greater value than it is.'" As we wait to ...

Who Will Heed China Environmental Minister's Warning About Environmental Disasters?

Contribute content like this. Start here . COMMENTARY | Post-disaster analysis of what went wrong in cases such as the meltdown of Japan's nuclear reactors after the recent tsunami, China's lead poisoning cases or the failures associated with the U.S. BP ...

FDA DESTRUCTION OF THE DIETARY SUPPLEMENT INDUSTRY

That may be because the efforts come under a more palatable public interest coating. The argument that consumers must be protected from potentially unsafe products by permitting FDA to run out of existence those companies it thinks may threaten public ...

Why Republicans Persist in Demanding the Elimination of 700,000 Jobs

Last week, the economy showed more evidence that the administration's economic stimulus programs, rescue of the auto industry, investments in clean energy, extension of unemployment compensation, past aid to the states and other measures are beginning to ...

Kansas congressman's ties to Koch Industries examined

The measures included amendments approved in the House budget bill to eliminate funding for two major Obama administration programs — a database cataloguing consumer complaints about unsafe products and an Environmental Protection Agency registry of ...

Updated: Witnesses Tell Congressional Committee That Lead Law Banning Small Dirt Bikes And ATVs Endangers Kids

“Nothing in the report indicated any problem with the ATV. But because the CPSC database on its face only accepts reports of 'unsafe' products, the inclusion of this report will result in the ATV implicitly being classified as an 'unsafe' product.

ShopSmart: Americans believe recall info not being shared

Tens of millions of children each year are needlessly exposed to unsafe products, toys and foods that have been recalled. Regardless of their skepticism regarding the sources of safety information, a large majority of U.S. adults felt that it was extremely ...

Fukushima's fallout

"The bottom line is that no potentially unsafe products with enter Canada." The risk of radiation is not something we can take lightly. Nor can we rely on overwhelmed importers to have proper testing and documentation in place. Canada should leave no room for error.

Opinion: To dye for - the coloring of our food

The agency should take action. Allowing the use of artificial dyes violates the FDA’s mandate to protect consumers from unsafe products. It also runs afoul of the agency’s mandate to crack down on food that has been made “to appear better or of ...

Kansas congressman's ties to Koch Industries examined

The measures included amendments approved in the House budget bill to eliminate funding for two major Obama administration programs — a database cataloguing consumer complaints about unsafe products and an Environmental Protection Agency registry of ...

Senate committee passes out House immigration bill

We weren’t there, but we’re told that the Senate Judiciary Committee today passed out HB 87, the immigration bill sponsored by state Rep. Matt Ramsey, R-Peachtree City. The vote was 5-4, and included state Sen. Jeff Mullis, R-Chickamauga, who was ...

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