It's No Accident : How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products
Author: E. Marla Felcher
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ISBN: 1567512046
Publisher: Common Courage Press (01 February, 2001)
Sales Rank: 176,815
Average Customer Rating: 5 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
MUST READ FOR PARENTS/GUARDIANS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
Do you think the government is protecting your children from unsafe products? If you believe this is so, THEN THINK AGAIN. Felcher does an admirable job pointing out the numerous flaws in the juvenile products industry and showing how your own young children could be at serious risk. For example, did you know that those popular bath seat rings actually contribute to bathtub drownings and that many, many popular juvenile products are recalled because they are dangerous without your knowing? You will be outraged after reading this book once you discover how little is being done to protect young children from dangerous products at the expense of corporate profit. This book is a must read for all parents of young children and would make a terrific baby shower gift.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Read This and Act!
Marla Felcher has done something important. She's written an investigative book that unmasks the scandalous state of our federal regulatory system, and shows us what to do about it. This is a story that should outrage every parent who has used baby equipment -- from bath seats to portable cribs -- with blind trust. For there is, in fact, no insurance that this equipment is safe. Every year children and killed and maimed using products that their parents naively thought was designed to protect them. It is not adequately tested (if at all) and when it is found defective, recall advertising is half-hearted at best. This won't change until the Consumer Products Regulatory Commission has more money, and more legal power. Buy this book, read it and take action!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Impressive
This impeccably reasearched and skillfully written analysis of the baby products industry is a "must read" for all--not only just parents and child care providers. As a collegiate professor, Department of Business and Management, University of Maryland University College, Europe, I've used it in classes to illustrate the principles of product liability, to raise business ethics issues, and to examine the machinery of federal regulation. Resulting discussions have lasted for hours, and rank among the most interesting that I've facilitated. Kudos to the author! Similar Products
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