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An Act to establish consumer product safety standards and other safety requirements for children's products and to reauthorize and modernize the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act ( CPSIA) of 2008 is a United States law signed on August 14, 2008 by President George W. Bush.
In 1972 when the agency was created, it had a budget of $34.7 million and 786 staff members. By 2008 it had 401 employees on a budget of $43 million, but the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act passed in 2008 increases funding $136.4 million in 2014 with full-time employees to at least 500 by 2013. [30]
An Act to protect consumers against unreasonable risk of injury from hazardous products, and for other purposes. The Consumer Safety Act ( CPSA) was enacted on October 27, 1972, by the United States Congress. The act should not be confused with an earlier Senate Joint Resolution 33 of November 20, 1967, which merely established a temporary ...
Case in point: The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) found a few years back that more than 400,000 items sold through Amazon’s third-party marketplace posed a significant product ...
July 30, 2024 at 2:48 PM. [Getty Images] US regulators have ruled that Amazon is responsible for handling recalls of unsafe products sold on its site and must improve its process. They said Amazon ...
The Consumer Product Safety Commission, which oversees about 15,000 types of products, is constrained by a system that is slow to identify deaths and limits the federal government’s power over ...
The Cosmetic Ingredient Review ( CIR ), based in Washington, D.C., assesses and reviews the safety of ingredients in cosmetics and publishes the results in peer-reviewed scientific literature. The company was established in 1976 by the Personal Care Products Council (then called the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association), with support ...
The Consumer Financial Protection Safety and Soundness Improvement Act of 2013 ( H.R. 3193) is a bill that would restructure the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by transforming it into a five-person commission and removing it from the Federal Reserve System. [1] The CFPB would be renamed the "Financial Product Safety Commission."