Product safety

Safety standards for toys have been in place for decades, but this year's Trouble in Toyland report from U.S. PIRG reveals that some new toys still hold hidden risks. What should you avoid to protect your child from toxic chemicals and choking hazards? Read on ...

More than 44 million children's products involved in 18 deaths were recalled last year - a figure boosted by a crackdown on soon-to-be banned drop-side cribs, the safety group Kids In Danger concluded in a report released today. Overall, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced 160...

Consumers ought to have a lot of friends. After all it's our money that fuels business in this country - and a lot of other countries, for that matter. In about a week, the government is slated to unveil a tool for consumers that catalogs safety concerns and complaints about certain products. The...

Toys R Us CEO Jerry Storch is proud his stores have collected and destroyed more than 300,000 children's products. There's a reason for the destruction and there's a reason for his boasting about it. Too often there are examples of companies that seem to disregard the safety of consumers -- even...

Trying to keep your family safe from dangerous products is extraordinarily challenging. You can follow product recalls as millions of consumers do, but many of those aren't issued until months after a hazard has been identified, thanks to a sometimes clunky legal process that requires corporate...

Furniture, TVs and appliances tipping over led to the deaths of nearly 200 young children over an eight year period -- about one every two weeks -- prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue an alert to parents to check for potential hazards in their homes.

For years safety advocates pushed for the idea of easy-to-use product registration cards for durable infant and toddler products to help notify consumers when a recall was issued. That day has finally arrived and two of the leaders of that effort for well over a decade got to be part of the...

Hundreds of thousands cribs are being recalled after they were connected to reports of infants becoming trapped in them, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is announcing today. The recalls are for cribs sold under the Graco and Simplicity brands. About 217,000 Graco brand drop side cribs...

GM says its monthly gain would have been even higher if its four jettisoned brands were excluded, and that wintry weather hurt sales. All is not well, however: GM also announced a recall of 1.3 million Cobalts for faulty steering.

The fact that nonrecalled Toyotas are also reported having sudden acceleration problems mean Toyota owners cannot rely on the recall lists to reassure themselves that their cars are safe.