Faulty Products: ; Chinese Manufacturers Rarely Suffer Consequences
Sunday Gazette-Mail › July 07, 2009
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WASHINGTON - Chinese manufacturers made more than half of the goods that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled last year, but few of them paid any price for producing defective wares.
The long list of faulty products included Chinese-made highchairs whose seat backs failed, steam cleaners that burned their users, bikes whose front-wheel forks broke, saunas that overheated, illuminated exit signs that stopped working when commercial power failed, dune buggies whose seat belts broke on impact and coffee makers that overheated and started fires.See the full content of this document
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Faulty Products: ; Chinese Manufacturers Rarely Suffer Consequences
It also included loosely knotted soccer goal nets that entrapped and strangled a child and a toy chest whose poorly supported lid fell on a toddler's neck and killed him, according to CPSC filings.
The difficulty in recovering damages is a le...See the full content of this document
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