Personal Injury Law

Consumer Advocacy Group Asks For A More Efficient CPSC

By Greg Webb

Public Citizen, a District-based advocacy group, criticized the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) for sometimes taking more than six months to inform the public about dangerous products. The advocacy group also complained that it took some companies almost three years to report hazards to the commission. Forty-six cases, from 2002-2007, were taken into consideration in Public Citizen's report, one of which described an all-terrain vehicle that had a faulty oil line causing forty-two fires and eighteen injuries after the dangers were reported to the CPSC from the vehicle's manufacturer. A CPSC spokesperson claims the agency works to notify the consumers as soon as possible when a hazard and remedy for the hazard are found.

Full post as published by Charlottesville Personal Injury Lawyer on February 19, 2008 (boomark / email).