CPSC Chair Says China's Product Safety Increased in 2010, Expects Same in 2011
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has posted the opening and closing remarks of Chairman Tenenbaum during the fourth U.S.-China Product Safety Summit which took place October 13-14, 2011. She said that imports from China comprised about 47% of all consumer…
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products that came into the U.S. in 2010 and 89% of all toy imports. Despite these high numbers, Chinese consumer products saw a drop in the number of recalls and recent surveys show increases in U.S. consumer confidence in Chinese products. According to Tenenbaum, the change has come about through more stringent U.S. safety requirements for toys and children's products, enhanced training of Chinese manufacturers, the closure of noncompliant toy factories in China, better coordination with CPSC's sister agency in China (AQSIQ). She says that CPSC will soon announce its 2011 recall numbers, but all signs point to the numbers continuing to move in the right direction.