Last-Minute Industry Effort to Derail Consumer Product Safety Commission Consumer Complaint Database

We told you last month that, in March, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will launch a web-based public database containing consumer complaints about products, and we noted that businesses were working behind the scenes to ditch the program. Now, the New York Times explains, the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives may be trying to kill the database and alter other CPSC initiatives, such as those involving lead in kids' toys, arising from the same 2008 reform legislation that gave birth to the database.