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The Consumer Product Safety Commission: Benefit or Boondoggle?
Author(s) -
FELDMAN LAURENCE P.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.1977.tb00613.x
Subject(s) - commission , consumer safety , product (mathematics) , business , consumer protection , marketing , risk analysis (engineering) , commerce , finance , geometry , mathematics
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has been subject to the criticism of all parties involved in the regulation of the safety of consumer products. This paper evaluates the Commission's performance, examining both the sources of the Commission's regulatory problems and the extent to which recent amendments to the Consumer Product Safety Act will ameliorate these problems. Alternative approaches to the regulation of consumer product safety are suggested.