Archive for the ‘Recall Effectiveness’ Category
Some Say Re-Gifting is Tacky, but Could it Also be Dangerous?
It’s been in your closet for almost a year – that blender that your husband’s Aunt Hilda thought you’d love. It is a nice blender, but you already have one that happens to be bright red to match your kitchen décor. You’re now exhausted, tired of shopping and need one last thing for your son’s [...]
Protecting Yourself from Recalled Products – How Much Risk Can You Bear?
Thousands of consumer products, accounting for hundreds-of-millions of items, are recalled each year for safety hazards that put their owners at increased risk of injury or death. Over the past five years alone, we have seen more than 150 million children’s items, 110 million household goods and 9 million pieces of sporting equipment recalled by [...]
Simply Check: A Long Awaited Solution to Recalled Products in the Secondary Market
When we read about product recalls in the news, the focus is nearly always on manufacturers, retailers and consumers – what the brand is doing, how stores are responding and how many people were hurt by the product. However, there is another industry that is severely impacted by recalled products that rarely gets any attention. [...]
Overpublicizing Product Recalls Hurts Consumers
It’s a bold statement that needs some qualifying, but the evidence is mounting – over-coverage of product recalls may damage recall effectiveness, putting consumers at greater risk for injury. It is a problem referred to as “recall fatigue,” and it occurs when a consumer quite literally gets tired of hearing about recalls. With the passing [...]
Tylenol Recall Survey Follow Up
Interestingly, even those who gave Johnson & Johnson high marks for how the recall was being handled, had quite a bit to say about what the company ought to do differently. Here are the first comments we received at each score.
WeMakeItSafer Releases Consumer Product Recall Statisitcs
Whether you are trying to assess recall risk, identify important market segments or calculating the impact of recalls on businesses, this data will be crucial to your successful navigation of the recall landscape.
CPSC Advice Not Practical, WeMakeItSafer Changes That
The CPSC continues to recommend that parents, childcare facility owners and school administrators check every belonging and new purchase on the CPSC website to make sure it has not been recalled. While we strongly support the idea of looking for recalls, using the government site to do so simply is not practical. Depending on the [...]
WeMakeItSafer Featured by Kids In Danger (KID)
WeMakeItSafer was recently featured in a Kids In Danger (KID) blog post. KID was formed by parents of Danny Keysar, a 16-month-old boy who died in a recalled travel yard. Neither parents nor caregivers at the childcare center where the crib was located knew about the recall. To date, 16 babies have died, yet the [...]
Registration Card Requirements for Durable Infant and Toddler Goods Effectively Postponed for up to Seven Months
Section 104(b) of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA of 2008) requires the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to set in place a final ruling regarding product registration cards for durable infant and toddler goods by August 14, 2009. However, the notice of proposed rule making (NPR) published in the federal register today indicates [...]
WeMakeItSafer.com is LIVE!
Tell all your friends – especially those with kids at home or those with senior family members living alone – to stop by http://WeMakeItSafer.com and peruse our simpler than ever recalled-product gallery to make sure there aren’t any items in their homes with safety defects. Unfortunately, nearly everyone owns dangerous, recalled products without knowing it.
And, don’t forget – never buy or sell another secondhand item without running a search at WeMakeItSafer first.
Company Costs of a Product Recall: Incentives to Fix or Ignore Recall Effectiveness Problems (Summary)
When I speak with consumers about possible ways to make locating recalled products easier for manufacturers, many balk at the idea, positing that companies would never have any incentive to improve recall effectiveness. For these individuals, the belief is that companies would rather not do everything possible to locate and retrieve defective products in order [...]
US Product Recall System is Ineffective…Still?
Every year millions of people are injured or killed in product-related accidents. In 2006 (the year before recalls regained the spotlight) product-related incidents in the US alone injured 33.1 million people and killed an additional 27,000. 1 That same year, in attempt to quell those numbers, the CPSC recalled 471 products, accounting for 124 million [...]
Brief Overview of the US Consumer-Product Recall System – Old and New
In the United States, more than 15,000 types of consumer products, not including food, drugs and vehicles, fall under the jurisdiction of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), the government agency whose job it is to protect the public “from unreasonable risks of injury and death associated with consumer products.”[1] Maintaining the product recall system [...]
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