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Too little money to do their jobs.(Have You Heard?)(Editorial)
Pretty much everyone in my household has had to forgo a favorite food recently--even our dog, Charley. Spinach, peanut butter, and dog food have all been recalled in the past several months for some type of contamination.
This raises the question as to whether the agencies charged with safeguarding our health and safety are doing as much as they should be. Consumers Union doesn't think so, and part of the reason they aren't is money. We're not advocating pumping dollars into inefficient systems. But we are worried that the government bodies that stand between consumers and danger are hobbled by their budgets. Here are two agencies that don't get enough money to do their jobs:
Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC is requesting $63.3 million for the next fiscal year, a bump of $880,000. That's a paltry amount to add to the already tight budget of the federal safety agency responsible for more than 15,000 types of consumer products.
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Those products include swimming pools. Drowning is the second-biggest accidental cause of death of children ages 1 to 14. But a tight budget and staff would force the CPSC to drop its strategic goal of reducing those deaths. It will publicize drowning hazards, but "resource limitations and the limited ability to develop further technical remedies" will weaken its efforts, says the CPSC's budget request.
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