Sen. Ossoff Working to Protect Children from Dangerous Products

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U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working to protect children and families from defective or dangerous products.

In a Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing yesterday, Sen. Ossoff secured a commitment from a key government official to ensure families are promptly notified about product recalls that may put children or families at risk.

"I want next to discuss something that I know is top of mind for every parent in Georgia, and as the father of a six-month-old baby daughter, something that I can relate to intensely, which is the concern about the safety of the products that families buy, whether it's strollers or cribs, that are under the regulatory purview of the Consumer Product Safety Commission," Sen. Ossoff said in the hearing. "That concern that a product malfunction, or an error in manufacturing, could lead to the death or serious injury of an infant or young child, it's every parent's worst nightmare."

Sen. Ossoff asked Eugene Dodaro, Comptroller General of the United States, for a commitment to work with him to implement recommendations to make the CPSC system as timely and efficient and effective as possible, "ensuring that no parent has to suffer the loss of an infant baby or a young child because of a preventable defect in a product that never should have hit markets or should have been recalled once it did."

Comptroller General Dodaro agreed to work with Sen. Ossoff and told him that the Government Accountability Office has identified ways to process product recalls faster and to improve coordination across the government to protect families.

Dodaro also testified that the GAO will continue working with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to implement those recommendations to protect families.

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