Attention Parents: Republicans Take Control Of The Consumer Product Safety Commission

And the First Item on Their Agenda? Loosening Toy Regulations

By Sarah Okeson

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is giving toy manufacturers more time to comment on guidelines to help protect our nation’s children from dangerous toys. This comes just two weeks after the Senate confirmed a commissioner who represented a toy company that violated a federal lead paint ban.

The Senate voted 50-45 in May to confirm Ohio attorney Dana Baiocco despite her refusal to fully recuse herself from matters involving Mattel Inc. and two other companies she represented.

Baiocco’s confirmation ends Democratic dominance of the commission. A fifth commission seat remains vacant. Trump nominated attorney Peter Feldman, a Senate staffer, on Monday for that position. The Senate has yet to act on the nomination of the commission’s acting chair Ann Marie Buerkle.

On Tuesday, the commission gave toy manufacturers and others until July 31 to comment on proposed guidelines for what toys are appropriate at different ages. Only two people had commented by Tuesday.

The proposed guidelines include toys such as play touchscreen phones, suction cup building pieces, wooden trains and magnetic puzzles. The original age guidelines are from 2002.

https://www.dcreport.org/2018/06/06/attention-parents-republicans-take-control-of-the-consumer-product-safety-commission/


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