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Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972 (CPSA)
Practical Law Glossary Item 1-514-5629 (Approx. 3 pages)
Glossary
Consumer Product Safety Act of 1972 (CPSA)
The federal law that created the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) as a federal agency tasked with identifying consumer products that pose an unreasonable risk of injury and creating standards to remove or lessen that risk (15 U.S.C. §§ 2051-2089). Among other things, the agency may also:
- Ban a consumer product if there is no adequate standard applicable to reduce or eliminate the risk of injury.
- Enact a recall for certain dangerous products (not including food, drugs, medical devices and other product categories regulated by other federal agencies).
The CPSA was amended and modernized by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.