August 2000 • Volume 6 • Number 8
Unsafe products?
Help get them off the market
The Academy has joined the Consumer Product Safety Commission and other health care organizations in a new campaign to get unsafe products off the market.
Recent reports indicate that many unsafe products are not reported to CPSC, resulting in numerous preventable injuries and some deaths. Children have been particularly at risk.
"It's time for all clinicians' organizations to re-emphasize the need for reporting and to work together in partnership with the CPSC to get unsafe consumer products off the market," the Academy said in a recent statement sent to the White House.
If you see a patient with a serious injury that may have been caused by a defective product, call the CPSC hotline at (800) 638-2772 or go to http://www.cpsc.gov/talk.html to report the product online. Your report might trigger a CPSC investigation that could lead to a product recall.
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