Call It The Who Cares About Consumer Safety Commission
Trump Wants Manufacturers’ Representatives Overseeing Product Safety Agency
By Sarah Okeson
Trump is putting people with long histories opposing product safety in charge of the agency responsible for product safety.
He has re-nominated attorney Ann Marie Buerkle, who is abetting the portable generator industry as it kills about 70 people a year, to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission. He has also re-nominated Boston attorney Dana Baiocco to the commission. Baiocco represented Yamaha in lawsuits brought by the families of boys injured while riding all-terrain vehicles. Baiocco’s husband, Andrew Susko, was involved in defending Ikea against three lawsuits filed by families of children who died after the company’s dressers tipped over on top of them.
“The Trump administration is filling the nation’s chief consumer product safety agency with friends of big business whose main aim is to weaken health and safety standards and increase profits,” said attorney Remington A. Gregg of Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy group.
Portable generators are one of the deadliest consumer products on the market. A 5,000-watt portable generator gives off as much carbon monoxide an hour as 450 idling mid-sized late-1990s cars. From 2005 to 2016, 849 people died from carbon monoxide poisoning from portable generators. Another 2,800 suffered from carbon-monoxide poisoning but didn’t die.
https://www.dcreport.org/2018/01/11/call-it-the-who-cares-about-consumer-safety-commission/
November 2018 cannot get here fast enough
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Maybe we'll be able to buy lawn darts again!
Maybe they'll even bring back this one from the 1930s.
"Gilbert's Kaster Kits allowed you to create your own army of tiny metallic minions ... which sounds kinda awesome until you realize it involved casting them from molten lead by yourself."
Or maybe even my brother's chemistry set from the 1950s. Ouch!
