The CPSC did these calculations because antimony is also used in fire retardants in mattresses.
The CPSC cited 166 deaths of children under 15 from those products since 1990.
Nineteen of the incidents included skull fractures, the company and the CPSC said in a statement.
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On Oct. 30, the Senate Commerce Committee approved a bill called the CPSC Reform Act, introduced by Sen.
The findings are based on reports by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).
The CPSC has issued dozens of recalls this year over toy safety.
In 2008, Congress mandated many more consumer-oriented actions by the CPSC through adoption of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA).
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The CPSC says it has investigated 28 infant deaths where bumpers were present and couldn't definitely say the bumper was the culprit.
Magnets have a long and not very happy history with the CPSC.
If the CPSC has occasion to revisit these three companies in the future, it only helps to have some goodwill in the bank.
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Since the government created the central site in March 2011, maintained by CPSC, consumers have recorded more than 850 instances of appliance fires.
In cooperation with Wal-Mart, the CPSC announced a voluntary recall of about 2.2 million space heaters that could overheat, melt, or catch fire.
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So now, in an agreement with the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Bumbo is adding a belt to add an extra layer of safety.
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And too often, it seems, CPSC has also made the short-sighted choice to completely recall a product, to garner headlines and appease those consumer groups.
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Between 1990 and 2005, the CPSC reported 69 balloon-related choking deaths of children under 15, with another 97 coming from marbles, balls and small toy parts.
By calling everything a recall, the CPSC runs the risk of crying wolf too often, and losing our attention when we must discontinue using products immediately.
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For concerned parents, the key to spotting a recalled toy offered online, says Felman, is checking the listing using the search function on the CPSC's Web site.
That ambiguity, according to Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) spokesman Scott Wolfson, means that the commission needs to work more closely with eBay to root out recalled toys.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) calculates that the amount that can be inhaled per day over a lifetime without causing harm is 9 micrograms per meter cubed.
The CPSC says 3 million sets of the magnets were sold since 2010, some but not all of those sold in the stores that are participating in the recall.
The CPSC estimates that exposure to children from furniture increased cancer risk by 20 additional cancers per million (two times the California safety standard of 10 cases per million).
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Wednesday's hearing, which came a day after China agreed to the CPSC's request to eliminate the use of lead paint on toy exports to the U.S., produced few significant results.
In one of the best-controlled studies, CpsC researchers in 1978 found that an expensive program that included handing out safety brochures to individual consumers had no effect on lawn mower injuries.
Remember, this is from a mattress, which the CPSC estimated as being 18, 200 centimeters squared of material covered in fire retardant for an adult, and 7, 900 centimeters squared of material for children.
In May, IBM and the CPSC jointly announced a recall of about 220, 000 AC adapters used with the company's ThinkPad notebooks and other mobile devices (see "IBM recalls 220, 000 ThinkPad adapters, " link below).
Although the magnets are meant for adult use, the CPSC said they pose grave danger to youngsters who play with them and to teenagers who use them to mimic tongue, lip or cheek piercings.
The CPSC move comes after consumer groups urged the commission in February to recall the seats, said Rachel Weintraub, director of product safety at the Consumer Federation of America, one of the advocacy groups.
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Of note, more than one third of the injured children in this study were less than 6 years of age-the age group for which the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) recommends against trampoline usage.
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