[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 74 (Friday, April 17, 1998)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 19167-19168]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-10430]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Proclamation 7082 of April 15, 1998

                
National Recall Round-Up Day, 1998

                By the President of the United States of America

                A Proclamation

                More than 21,000 Americans lose their lives each year 
                in accidents involving consumer products, and more than 
                29 million are injured. These accidents cost our Nation 
                over $200 billion annually, and the cost in terms of 
                human suffering is immeasurable.

                The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is on the 
                front line of the Federal Government's efforts to 
                protect the safety and well-being of our citizens, 
                especially our children. The CPSC monitors the 
                performance of more than 15,000 types of consumer 
                products and secures the recall of those that prove to 
                be defective and potentially hazardous. Last year 
                alone, the CPSC negotiated 362 recalls involving over 
                76 million individual consumer products that presented 
                a significant risk to the public. But getting dangerous 
                products off store shelves is only the first step. The 
                real challenge is getting them out of the homes of 
                people who have already purchased them.

                On April 16, the CPSC, in conjunction with State and 
                local governments and community organizations across 
                the country, will conduct the second annual Recall 
                Round-Up Day. This initiative is a public safety 
                campaign to warn Americans that they may still be 
                exposing themselves and their families to recalled 
                products that could seriously injure or even kill them. 
                Despite recalls and safety alerts issued by the CPSC, 
                many of these hazardous products are still in 
                consumers' homes or can be purchased at secondhand 
                stores and garage sales.

                This year's Recall Round-Up effort will spotlight the 
                dangers associated with five types of previously 
                recalled consumer products: playpens, bunk beds, 
                halogen floor lamps, hand-held hair dryers, and lawn 
                darts. The CPSC encourages government officials, 
                health, safety, and consumer agencies, community 
                organizations, and the media to alert the American 
                people--particularly parents and child care providers--
                to the importance of repairing, returning, or 
                destroying any of these products if they have been 
                recalled. I encourage all Americans to make use of this 
                vital information to protect the safety and health of 
                their families and to avoid preventable tragedies.

                NOW, THEREFORE, I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the 
                United States of America, by virtue of the authority 
                vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United 
                States, do hereby proclaim April 16, 1998, as National 
                Recall Round-Up Day. I call upon all Americans to 
                observe this day by working with safety, health, and 
                consumer agencies and other appropriate community 
                organizations to organize and conduct local round-ups 
                of dangerous and defective consumer products and to 
                warn parents, child care providers, and the general 
                public about the hazards of using recalled consumer 
                products.

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                IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this 
                fifteenth day of April, in the year of our Lord 
                nineteen hundred and ninety-eight, and of the 
                Independence of the United States of America the two 
                hundred and twenty-second.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

[FR Doc. 98-10430
Filed 4-16-98; 8:45 am]
Billing code 3195-01-P