KEEPING BABIES SAFE NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! 💙 LINK IN BIO (fb)

Keeping Babies Safe needs your help. Please join us in a letter opposing any attempt to eliminate, defund or weaken the Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC is an independent federal agency commissioned by Congress to protect the public from unreasonable risks of injury or death from consumer products through education, safety standards, regulation, and enforcement. This small agency with a big mission has had lifesaving effects. Namely, CPSC standards and enforcement activities have helped spur a 80 percent decline in crib deaths and injuries associated with baby walkers have been slashed by 88 percent. The Trump administration is finalizing a proposal to eliminate the CPSC and transfer the agency’s functions to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). If implemented, this proposal would eradicate – not reorganize – our nation’s governance of product safety. Consumer products, including those imported from overseas, may no longer be inspected by federal regulators for safety threats. Sellers may no longer be obligated to recall dangerous, violative products. Vital product safety information and data may no longer be public. Critical product safety research may no longer be performed. The agency oversees the safety of more than 15,000 types of consumer products, including toys, baby products, appliances, and electronics. It has a special role making sure that kids’ products are safe, recognizing that our children are particularly vulnerable. The CPSC has done wonders in ensuring that our cribs, mattresses and play yards are safe. We truly value our work together. Thank you. Please click the link below and SHARE! Best, Joyce and Rich (fb)