"Emboldened by a Republican majority in the House of Representatives, manufacturers of toys and other childrens products are making a last-ditch effort to quash new safety regulations that they say are unfair or too onerous."Among their primary targets is a new public database, operated by the Consumer Product Safety Commission and scheduled to go online in three weeks, that would allow the public to search for injury reports on products like cribs and strollers...." Here.

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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