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CPSC Says Proposal for Voluntary Window Covering Standard Insufficient

Chairman Tenenbaum of the Consumer Product Safety Commission sent a letter to the Window Covering Manufacturers Association on June 1, 2011 urging it to consider CPSC's concerns about the proposed revisions to the voluntary standard for window coverings. The Chairman…

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states that staff have strong reservations about portions of the current proposal and that these should be addressed to ensure that strangulation risks from cords on window coverings are eliminated, not just reduced.