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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission


Recent Articles about U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission

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

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