So, Ming, why is the Consumer Product Safety Commission building a publicly available consumer product safety information database?
Ming Zhu: In August of 2008 Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act or CPSIA. CPSIA gave the CPSC some powerful new tools to help inform and protect the consumers and while the key requirements of the law is the creation of a public database containing all the reports of harm that we receive from consumers and other members of the public if they meet certain minimal requirements. Thomas Hucker: Hmm, so how will the public database benefit consumers? Ming Zhu: Well, we think over time the database will contain an enormous amount of information, make that information available to consumers at a few clicks of a mouse. In Phase 1 consumers will be able to read incident reports or reports of harm that we receive from the public along with any manufacturer’s comments. In the later phase consumers will be able to access results of safety research that the agency conducts and we hope with all that information the consumers will be able to identify and remove hazardous produ
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