Fielding Differences

By Nancy Nord, via Conversations with Consumers Blog It has been said that no two people ever read the same book.  Our perspectives and reactions are all influenced and informed by the points of view we bring to a particular issue.  This is especially true of commissioners at the CPSC who bring a wealth of experiences to the agency and whose outlooks are influenced by those experiences. My...
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Good Riddance to the CPSC

DENVER, COLORADO, June 5, 2014 /EINPresswire.com/ — This is written in response to Marietta S. Robinson’s statement, published on May 28th, 2014. http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/healthcare/207273-good-riddance-to-buckeyballs Last week, you released a statement on thehill.com, titled “Good Riddance to Buckeyballs” announcing victory over Buckyballs, and giving the...
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CPSC Commissioner Robert Adler Served Petition Signatures to Cease Magnet Prohibition

On Tuesday February 17th, five thousand petition signatures were hand-delivered to Robert (Bob) S. Adler, the acting Chairman at the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The stack of signatures were served in person by Shihan Qu, the founder of Zen Magnets, at the Jatvis Center in New York during the New York Toy Fair. Robert Adler (D) was appointed to the agency by President Barack...
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Survey: Ban of Buckyballs, Zen Magnets, Projected to Damage CPSC Credibility

The CPSC attempt to ban magnet spheres, such as Zen Magnets and Buckyballs, will damage the agency’s credibility, according to a national survey by Public Polling Policy. The projection is based on telephone interviews conducted summer of 2013 among a national sample of 755 registered voters, 18 years of age or older, living in all 50 U.S. states. Within a margin of error of 3.5%, 88% of...
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CPSC's "Opportunity for Oral Comments" for Magnet Ban, such a sham.

The CPSC (Consumer Product Safety Commission) is procedurally required to hear more arguments regarding their magnet ban. Actions show questionable intention of having meaningful dialogue with the dissenting public. Despite internal conflict within the ranks of the CPSC on the topic (of an all-ages-nationwide ban on sets of high powered magnets such as Zen Magnets or Buckyballs,) the federal...
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WMU Mathematics Professor Condemns CPSC and Gillibrand

The following is a letter CC’d to Zen Magnets from David Richter.   Dear Commissioners and Senators Brown and Gillibrand, I am a professor of mathematics and I am against the ban on rare-earth magnet spheres as proposed by the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. Instead of an outright ban, we should have legislation which restricts sale of magnet spheres to adults. When a child is...
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