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Introduction:

In this lesson, you have learned to identify fraud and malpractice in products and services that can affect your health. You have explored what kind of recourse you may have if you discover that a product or service might be harmful to your health or to that of others. The U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commission (CPSC) deals with just this sort of problem.

Links to Explore:
U.S. Consumer Product and Safety Commision: Who We Are http://www.cpsc.gov/consumer.html

Directions:

• Visit the CPSC Web site and read their publication, Who We Are–What We Do for You.
• After you have read the publication in its entirety, answer the following questions:

1.			What does the US Consumer Product Safety Commission do?
2.			How much money does damage from consumer product incidents cost the United States annually?
3.			What other types of damage can consumer product incidents cause?
4.			Name three types of products that are under the CPSC’s jurisdiction.
5.			In the past three decades, since the early years of the CPSC, has there been an increase or a decline in the rates of death and injury associated with consumer products? How much?
6.			How can you report an unsafe consumer product or product related injury to the U.S. government?