Faulty Car Seat Tests Prompt Magazine Response

Quality Progress, May, 2007 by Anonymous

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Following a botched report on infant car seats that prompted a public apology. Consumer Reports announced it is changing some internal procedures and policies.

In early January, the magazine released crash test results that said 10 out of 12 infant car safety seats provided inadequate protection in side impacts. Consumer Reports later received information from the federal government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that called its infant seat tests into question.

On Jan. 18, two weeks after announcing the test results, Consumer Reports said the side impact test had ...