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Consumers need to know more about faulty products.(Consumers Union In Action)(Column)
Americans have come to expect that the products they buy are safe to use. And they usually are. But recent headlines have been disconcerting:
* Cosco and Safety 1st, among the largest makers of baby products, agreed to pay $1.75 million in civil penalties for failing to report product defects to the government. (It is the second such fine for Cosco.) Instead, the companies tried to quietly fix problems with their car seats, cribs, electric baby-wipe warmers, high chairs, strollers, and walkers. Two babies died and more than 300 children were injured while using these products, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
* Long before Firestone recalled millions of tires because of separating treads, dozens of consumers sued Firestone about similar problems. But the public didn't learn of potential dangers because the cases were settled and, with the agreement of all parties, the papers were sealed.
* As a result of the Firestone fiasco, in which Ford replaced similarly defective tires abroad but didn't tell U.S. officials, manufacturers will be required to notify the government about safety defects they find in their exported motor vehicles and related equipment. But there is no such requirement for the makers of other consumer products.
Consumers Union believes that such cases illustrate the ...
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- Magazine article from: Advertising Age Madden, Normandy August 20, 2007 700+ words
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- FAULTY PRODUCTS MUST BE FIXED, AND REMEMBERED.(P-I Focus)
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Will we never learn? As the Firestone tire recall gives rise to a national storm of fear and blame, I fall into a funk of deja vu. I've been here before, terrified by defective products, seeing evidence of corporate callousness and hearing the inevitable righteous cries for change. In 1977, I stood
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- Magazine article from: Medical Device Technology Blake, Noel January 1, 2003 700+ words
Closer to absolute control In the drive for near-zero defects and the need for absolute control of the manufacturing process, questions are being raised about the likelihood of processes operating with undetected faults that occur at a frequency so potentially low they remain undetected. Because
