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Labeling requirements are being considered as replacements for complex product standards by the Reagan Administration. The Department of Energy, for exam... Read more
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
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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 more
A Sticky Situation for Second-Hand Toy Stores
How federal regulations to ensure safer playthings are hurting used toy shops and thrift stores. Read more
Segway Takes a Spill
The Consumer Product Safety Commission and Segway LLC, based in Manchester, N.H., announced a recall of all 6,000 Segways, a New York Times Read more
How the Fireworks Business Really Works
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 more
How to Survive a Product Recall
A product recall doesn’t have to be the complete disaster it sounds like. Here’s how to limit the damage to your company and reputation. Read more
An Argument Against the Start-up Visa
Are babies naming start-ups? One writer over at Gi... Read more
10 Reasons to Start a Business
Each day, Inc.'s reporters scour the Web for the most important and interesting news to entrepreneurs. Here's what we found today:<... Read more
He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry
Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw? Read more
He Took On the Whole Power-Tool Industry
Why wasn't anyone else interested in building a safer saw? Read more
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 more
Update: AstroTurf's PR Nightmare
How the company that bought the AstroTurf name dealt with allegations that older fields contained worrisome levels of lead. Read more
Best of the Small Business Web: Total Recall
Business Response, a first-of-its-kind service, assumes the burden for companies that are plagued by product-safety problems. Read more
Changing Course
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 more
Jon Pritchett's Dream of Reviving AstroTurf Became a PR Nightmare
Should he go all out to save the brand? Read more
Inner Beauties
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 more
Values Added
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 more
(still) Unsafe At Any Speed
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 more
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 more
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