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Better Safe Than Sorry
Senate passes consumer-safety bill that would reduce toxics in toys |
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06 Mar 2008 |
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| Posted at 4:28 PM on 06 Mar 2008 The U.S. Senate has passed legislation aimed at decreasing consumer exposure to dangerous products (like, oh, lead-tainted toys, to pick a random example). Specifically, the measure passed Thursday would increase the staff and budget of the Consumer Product Safety Commission; sharply reduce acceptable levels of lead and phthalates in toys; create a database of public compl ... |
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| Topics: green living, green products, legislation, news, parenting, politics, toxics, US Senate (all these topics) |
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