U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission


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Jul 1, 1981

Labeling requirements are being considered as replacements for complex product standards by the Reagan Administration. The Department of Energy, for exam...  Read story

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)

The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) was established in 1972 with the passage of the Consumer Product Safety Act. The primary responsibility of t...  Read story

A Sticky Situation for Second-Hand Toy Stores

By Caitlin McDevitt |  Mar 3, 2009

How federal regulations to ensure safer playthings are hurting used toy shops and thrift stores.  Read story

How the Fireworks Business Really Works

By Angus Loten |  May 23, 2006

Tougher safety regulations and a surge in patriotism spurred by Sept. 11, combined with market reforms in China, are turning backyard fireworks into a boomin...  Read story

Consumer Advocacy

Consumer advocacy refers to actions taken by individuals or groups to promote and protect the interests of the buying public. Historically, consumer advoc...  Read story

He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry

By Melba Newsome |  Jan 24, 2007

Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw?  Read story

Update: AstroTurf's PR Nightmare

By Kasey Wehrum |  Nov 1, 2009

How the company that bought the AstroTurf name dealt with allegations that older fields contained worrisome levels of lead.  Read story

Best of the Small Business Web: Total Recall

By Leigh Buchanan |  Nov 15, 1999

Business Response, a first-of-its-kind service, assumes the burden for companies that are plagued by product-safety problems.  Read story

Encyclopedia Table of Contents

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Street Smarts: Changing Course

By Norm Brodsky |  May 1, 2002

Companies these days have to change constantly just to survive, but some changes are bigger than others. Sometimes you even transform your company from one t...  Read story

(still) Unsafe At Any Speed

Dec 1, 1985

Ralph Nader, the man who killed the Corvair, is now organizing buyers' collaboratives to make big-volume purchases from fuel dealers, and spotting the consum...  Read story

Values Added

Jan 1, 1986

Do you have to be bad to be good at business? Why are American managers so afraid of ethics? James O'Toole, author of Vanguard Management, champions values a...  Read story

Inner Beauties

By Emily Esterson |  Dec 1, 1998

Here's how Children's Orchard, a franchiser of children's discount stores, uses an intranet to alert franchisees to news about new products and unite them un...  Read story

Jon Pritchett's Dream of Reviving AstroTurf Became a PR Nightmare

By Andrew Park |  Sep 1, 2008

Should he go all out to save the brand?  Read story

Underwriters Laboratories (UL)

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) is the largest and best known independent, not-for-profit testing laboratory in the world. Based in Northwood, Illinois, UL...  Read story

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