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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 product-units.2  [...]