Consumer Protection Safety

ACGIH = American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists BLR = Business Legal Reports, Inc. CERCLA = Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act CFR = Code of Federal Regulations CPSC = Consumer Protection Safety Commission EPA = Environmental Protection Agency ... 

United States Consumer Protection Safety Commission Web site. www. cpsc.gov. Accessed December 15, 2006. 

Nazaroff, W. W., and Teichmann, K., Indoor radon. Environ. Sci. Technol. 24, 774-782 (1990). U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, "The Inside Story A Guide to Indoor Air Quality." EPA/400/1-88/004, September 1988. 

We can expect drastic changes in the food packaging industry. Some will arise from new consumer needs, new or expanded food supplies and products, and new food preservation systems such as aseptic packaging. Others will result from societally based constraints such as safety in health and hazardous use (as in the child safety closure legislation) and consumer protection against fraud, misinformation, or wrongful use where the burden for awareness is no longer on the buyer but on the supplier. Other such constraints will arise from environmental concerns or material scarcities. 

Lobbying by other P-carotene producers — In addition to approvals of mixed carotenes from palm oil, P-carotene from Dunaliella microalgae, and other natural products, the EU Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General was asked for an opinion on the safety of P-carotene from a dried biomass source, obtained from a fermentation process with Blakeslea trispora for use as a coloring matter for foodstuffs. 

The Consumer Protection, Furniture and Furnishings (Fire) (Safety) Regulations 1988 is a complex application of a series of ignition tests based on BS 5852 Parts 1 and 2 and BS 6807. 

Consumer Protection, The Upholstered Furniture (Safety) Regulation 1980, HMSO, London. 

In the USA, the toy industry has decided not to disclose what chemicals are used in its products - a move which is against the hopes of Environmental Defense of New York, a group who believes that companies should disclose this information so that the public can make informed choices. Details of the debate are recorded here. ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE TOY INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION US,CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION US,ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY MATTEL INC. HASBRO INC. LEGO SYSTEMS INC. AMERICAN CHEMISTRY COUNCIL US,GOVERNMENT TOY MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA INC. 

Flammable Fabrics Act, enacted in 1970 and last amended in 1983, gives the Consumer Product Safety Commission the authority to set flammability standards for fabrics that protect against an unreasonable risk of the occurrence of a fire. 

Poison Packaging Prevention Act of 1953, last amended in 1990, provides the Consumer Product Safety Commission authority to set standards for the special packaging of any household product to protect children from a hazard. 

EC. Guidance document on dermal absorption, European Comission Health Consumer Protection Directorate—General Directorate E—Food Safety Plant health, animal welfare, international questions El—Plant health, 2004. 

National Association of Attorneys General. (1993). Orkin Unsubstantiated safety claims for pesticides. National Association of Attorneys General, Consumer Protection Report 32. Washington, D.C. NAAG. 

Agency for Toxic Substance and Disease Registry Centers for Disease Control Consumer Product Safety Commission Environmental Protection Agency Food and Agriculture Organization Food and Drug Administration Food Safety and Inspection Service International Agency for Research on Cancer National Cancer Institute National Institutes of Health National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health... 

Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly-Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) (2007) Preliminary report on the safety of medical devices containing DEHP-plasticized PVC or other plasticizers on neonates and other groups possibly at risk. European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection... 

The attempt to understand the frequently faced tediousness of substitution processes is firstly directed at individual actors, their motives and their opportunities for influence, and also at the way they utilise these opportunities or, rather, do not utilise them. The roles of these actors can then immediately be sub-divided into promoters and blockers, and an attempt will then be made to explain the success or failure of substitution as a consequence of a certain distribution of interests and powers. In fact, it always comes down to people who promote or block iimova-tions. This begins with the entrepreneurial personality as illustrated by Schumpeter, who performs its work of creative destruction , via entrepreneurs who are said to be indifferent to occupational health and safety, consumer protection or environmental protection, to cultural pessimists and luddites , who always aimed to impede one technology or another. 

With regard to innovation processes the significance and the direct effectiveness of individual committed promoters or blockers with their individual motives such as profit or occupational health and safety, consumer protection or environmental protection should, however, not be overestimated. Although committed promoters do play an important part in most substitution processes, a closer look at the individual case samples very quickly reveals their structural futility. Complex innovative processes cannot be moved by a limited number of actors or even by individuals alone. Many substitution processes simply do not progress, despite the fact that we cannot observe any definite opponents . These innovations are not impeded, they only become stuck, as the inertia of the system is simply too high. In order to gain an appropriate comprehension of the ability (and not just the... 

The Codex Alimentarius is a collection of standards, codes of practice, guidelines, and other recommendations. Some of these texts are very general, and some are very specific. Some deal with detailed requirements related to a food or group of foods others deal with the operation and management of production processes or the operation of government regulatory systems for food safety and consumer protection. 

Anybody who studies the legislation will see that BS7114 makes a notable addition to the Explosives Acts of 1875 and 1923, the Fireworks Act of 1951, the Health and Safety at Work Act of 1974, the Consumer Protection Acts of 1978 and 1987, and the Classification and Labelling of Explosives Regulations of 1983. 

Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety (BVL) Braunschweig, Germany... 

Comments on the DG SANCO Consultation of Consumer Organizations, Industry Concerned and Other Interested Parties on the Strategy for Completion of the Positive List of Food and Food Ingredients to be Authorised for Irradiation Treatment, Annex of Directive 1999/3/EC, SANCO/4175/2000-rev.l, European Commission, Health and Consumer Protection Directorate-General, Directorate D - Food Safety Production and Distribution Chain, Brussels, 2000. Ehlermann, D.A.E. Radiat. Phys. Chem. 2002, 63, Til. 

Because of the problems that resulted from self-regulation, another law, the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, was approved in 2006. This law requires manufacturers, packers, or distributors of supplements to submit reports of serious adverse events to the FDA. Serious adverse events are defined as death, a life-threatening event, hospitalization, a persistent or significant disability or incapacity, congenital anomaly or birth defect, or an adverse event that requires medical or surgical intervention to prevent such outcomes based on reasonable medical judgment. If this requirement were enforced, and consumers cooperated, these reports would make it possible to identify trends in adverse effects and would help to alert the public to safety issues. 

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