Don't confuse consumers

0 Comments | USA TODAY, March, 2008 | by Rosario Palmieri

America's manufacturers are committed to ensuring that consumers can be confident that the products they buy are the safest in the world.

That's why the National Association of Manufacturers supported the bipartisan Consumer Product Safety Modernization Act that passed the House last December, and why we support the provisions in the Senate Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) Reform Act that improve product safety in a meaningful way.

Unfortunately, the Senate bill also contains several provisions, including the creation of a "public database" that will do nothing for product safety and instead confuse and mislead consumers.

The Senate provision would require the CPSC to devote significant money and staff resources to maintain a database that...