Senate Protects Scientists at the Consumer Product Safety Commission
On March 6, 2008 the Senate approved comprehensive consumer product safety legislation that will provide whistleblower protections to employees at the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC). The bill will also open up the decision-making process at CPSC to more public scrutiny. The 79-13 vote is a hard-fought victory for UCS and our allies.
Through meetings with congressional staff and sign-on letters, UCS built support for whistleblower protections for CPSC staff, many of whom are statisticians, psychologists, chemists, and engineers. We also successfully fought for a requirement that the agency post consumer complaints about product injuries in a publicly accessible database.
