Five great steps forward in consumer safety have been taken by your United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) in the past month:

• On July 1, the CPSC voted unanimously to approve a new federal safety rule prohibiting drawstrings in children's upper outerwear.
• On July 15, the CPSC...

Memorial Day weekend is a time of family get-togethers, barbecues and the traditional start of the summer swimming season. Hundreds of thousands of children will flock to community and backyard swimming pools to cool off and splash around. Unfortunately, it has already been a tragic start to the year for...

By Inez Tenenbaum, Robert Adler and Thomas Moore

As the majority of Commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), we write to express our serious concerns with significant portions of the discussion draft circulated by the staff of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is the leading federal agency charged with ensuring the safety of consumer products. We protect families like yours, from risks of injury or death from thousands of types of consumer products, including items that many of you use every day, such...

While the summer swimming season is behind us, many communities across the country still have their doors open to those looking to cool off in water parks and hotel, motel and public pools. Now is not the time to let our guard down.

Our Pool Safely education campaign is...

While summer should be a time of fun and relaxation, it has sadly brought tragedy to far too many families. Within the past three weeks, two sets of twin girls drowned in residential swimming pools in the Boston area.

This week, six teenagers drowned in the Red...

Your baby's crib. It should be, it must be, the safest product in your family's home. For millions of parents, precious dollars are invested in a new crib as the centerpiece of the nursery. Parents expect their crib to be free of hazards and for their baby to sleep safely...

The splash starts Memorial Day weekend, when pool season kicks into high gear.

Pools and spas are great sources of family fun and relaxation. They are also sources of too many preventable family tragedies.

From 2005 through 2007, an average of 385 children younger than age 15...

It's that time of year again. The holidays are fast approaching, and families across America are starting their shopping.

As any parent or grandparent knows, there are few greater rewards than seeing the smile spread across a child's face as they open the perfect present. But we also know...