CFA Joins Other Organizations Urging Congress to Properly Fund and Staff the Consumer Product Safety Commission
CFA joined other consumer organizations, environmental groups, testing laboratories, manufacturers and retailers of consumer products in urging Congress to increase funding for the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). There is also consensus among CPSC stakeholders that the agency is significantly underfunded and therefore short-staffed compared to other federal health and safety regulatory agencies. The CPSC’s current budget is by far the smallest among federal health and safety regulatory agencies. Yet the agency has a broad mandate with jurisdiction over roughly 15,000 different types of consumer products used by 330 million American consumers in everyday life.
