Despite threats of a budget cut, the Consumer Product Safety Commission unveiled Friday a database that will allow the public to search for complaints about the safety of everyday products. Called SaferProducts.gov, the database will essentially make public the types of injury and death reports, and assorted hazard complaints, that the commission has gathered for years, but that have largely remained out of public view.

Public product-safety website becomes available

March 12, 2011

Despite threats of a budget cut, the Consumer Product Safety Commission will unveil on Friday a database that will allow the public to search for complaints about the safety of everyday products. Called SaferProducts.gov, the database will essentially make public the types of injury and death reports, and assorted hazard complaints, that the commission has gathered for years, but that have largely remained out of public view.