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    By Mitch Lipka

    | 1:30PM 7/29/2009
    If you're going to make a dent in toy safety, your first stop has to be China. An estimated nine out of 10 toys sold in the U.S. comes from that nation's factories.For Inez Tenenbaum, who President Obama appointed as the new chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, dealing with toy...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 10:00AM 7/21/2009
    For years, a handful of companies that manufactured products consumers told them were dangerous seemingly violated the federal consumer safety rules as a business decision. They had a decision to make: quickly report the problem (as the law requires) and repair or replace hundreds of thousands of...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 6:30PM 7/20/2009
    An American subsidiary of the Chinese electronics and appliances giant Haier Group was assessed a $587,500 penalty for failing to promptly disclose that it knew wires were breaking in its fans, posing a risk of fire, thus delaying its recall.Haier America Trading Llc. agreed to pay the fine to...

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 8:30PM 5/07/2009
    At long last, President Obama has named his choice for a new leader of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. But the choice of Inez Tenenbaum is a bit out of left field. She is a prominent Democrat, rumored at one point to become Obama's education secretary. She has no background in product...