PRODUCT SAFETY

Addresses

Consumer Product Safety—A Public Policy Issue: Nancy H. Steorts, 30850-30852 [9OC]

Amendments

Children's Products Safety Act: enact (H.R. 5818), 28840, 29181 [3OC]

Federal Antitampering Act: enact (H.R. 2174), 14089, 14128 [24MY]

———enact (H.R. 2174), Senate amendments, 14300 [24MY]

Food, drugs, or cosmetics: penalties for adulterating (H.R. 2174), 14089, 14128 [24MY]

———penalties for adulterating (H.R. 2174), Senate amendments, 14300 [24MY]

Articles and editorials

New Directions in Product Safety Regulation, 30852-30854 [9OC]

Bills and resolutions

Courts: penalty for those who willfully sell or offer for sale drugs, devices, or medical treatment unsafe or ineffective (see H.R. 6050)

Drugs: expand medical freedom of choice of consumers by regulating them solely to assure their safety (see H.R. 5824)

Food: emergency action relative to pesticide residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (see S. 3076)

Hazardous substances: penalty for business entities for nondisclosure of concealed dangers in certain products and practices (see H.R. 6350)

Health care: penalty for those who willfully sell or offer for sale drugs, devices, or medical treatment unsafe or ineffective (see H.R. 6050)

———Strike Force on Health Quackery to curb sale and promotion of fraudulent remedies (see H.R. 6051)

Medical devices: FDA authority to require records from manufacturers, importers, and distributors (see H.R. 5508)

Motor vehicles: bumper standard (see H.R. 6081)

Pesticides: emergency action relative to chemical residues on food which present an imminent hazard to public health (see S. 3076)

Toxic Substances Control Act: amend (see S. 3075)

Toys: notice of repair, replacement, and refund for defective (see H.R. 5818)

Letters

Product liability law: Association of Trial Lawyers of America, 22524 [6AU]

———Attorneys Congressional Campaign Trust, 22524 [6AU]

Remarks in House

Children's Products Safety Act: enact (H.R. 5818), 22381 [6AU], 29488 [3OC]

Federal Antitampering Act: enact (H.R. 2174), Senate amendments, 14300 [24MY]

Food, drugs, or cosmetics: penalties for adulterating (H.R. 2174), Senate amendments, 14300 [24MY]

Toys: notice and repair, replacement, and refund for defective (H.R. 5818), 22381 [6AU], 29488 [3OC]

Remarks in Senate

Children's Products Safety Act: enact (H.R. 5818), 28840 [3OC]

———enact (H.R. 5818), discharged from committee, 27786 [28SE]

———enact (H.R. 5818), unanimous-consent request, 28840 [3OC]

Federal Antitampering Act: enact (H.R. 2174), 14089 [24MY]

Food: emergency action relative to pesticide residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (S. 3076), 30589 [5OC]

———result of hearings on safety legislation, 30551 [5OC]

Food, drugs, or cosmetics: penalties for adulterating (H.R. 2174), 14089 [24MY]

Liability: manufacturers' responsibility (S. 44), 31819 [11OC]

———State workers' compensation systems, 31824 [11OC]

Meatpacking industry: enforcement of sanitation rules, 31783 [11OC]

Pesticides: emergency action relative to chemical residues which present an imminent hazard to public health (S. 3076), 30589 [5OC]

Product Liability Act: enact (S. 44), 22523 [6AU]

Toxic Substances Control Act: amend (S. 3075), 30581 [5OC]

Reports

CPSC Performance Standards for Manufacturers of Cigarettes and Little Cigars: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 1880) (H. Rept. 98-917), 21510 [30JY]

Federal Hazardous Substances Act Amendment Regarding Defective Toys: Committee on Energy and Commerce (H.R. 5818) (H. Rept. 98-895), 20702 [24JY]

Regulation of Interstate Commerce by Providing for a Uniform Product Liability Law: Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation (S. 44) (S. Rept. 98-476), 13525 [23MY]

Statements

Food Safety Hearings (sundry excerpts), 30552 [5OC]

Texts of

H.R. 5818, Children's Products Safety Act, 22381 [6AU], 28840 [3OC]

S. 3075, Toxic Substances Control Act amendment, 30582-30589 [5OC]

S. 3076, emergency action relative to chemical residues on food which present an imminent hazard to public health, 30590-30593 [5OC]