CPSC NEEDS YOUR HELP...
We need your help in reducing serious fire hazard related injuries and deaths among children. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) will be conducting a Recall Round-Up this spring to help reduce fire hazards from consumer products by encouraging consumers to remove hazardous products from their homes.
In the past four years, Recall Round-Up campaigns generated tremendous interest and media attention nationwide. Recall Round-Up is CPSC's single-most successful Federal-state-local partnership program. All 50 states, Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia participated, as well as many local community organizations and national non-profit organizations.
CPSC is requesting local fire departments and State Designee offices to establish collection sites for recalled products in firehouses throughout the state. Offer to host a collection site for one week starting April 17, 2001 and publicize it in your community.
CPSC coordinates approximately 300 recalls of defective or dangerous products each year. Removing recalled products from the distribution chain is usually not difficult, but getting consumers to give them up can be. Despite recall notices and public warnings, many old hazardous products are still in homes, flea markets, second-hand stores, and at garage and yard sales. The results? Deaths and serious injuries to children caused by recalled products still occur, and parents lament, "If only we'd known...."
What can you do? CPSC, fire marshals, fire departments, state and local health, safety, and non-profit consumer agencies are collaborating in springtime community round-ups of recalled and other hazardous products to alert parents, children's care givers, and the general public to the hazards of selected consumer products and to encourage their repair, return, or destruction. We'd like you or your organization to join in this initiative.
To kick off the nationwide Recall Round-Up campaign, CPSC will broadcast a video news release (VNR) by satellite to all U.S. TV stations on April 17, 2001. The VNR will describe the hazards of the selected products and product categories for the 2001 campaign. We will urge consumers to check their homes for these products and to call CPSC's toll-free consumer Hotline (1-800-638-2772) or visit its website, www.cpsc.gov, for more information. Our Hotline also will inform callers how to get a list from the Commission of other recently recalled products.
With your help we can reduce serious injuries and deaths among children. Please join us in this potentially life-saving project.
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Robert R. Baxter U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 4815 West Markham, Slot 50 Little Rock, Arkansas 72205 504-324-6631 504-324-6933 (Fax) bbaxter@cpsc.gov | Missouri Arkansas Iowa Nebraska |
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Helen Cash U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission P. O. Box 1514 Summerville, SC 29484-1514 843-832-9710 843-832-0799 (Fax) hcash@cpsc.gov | North Carolina South Carolina |
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Jesus Chairez (Spanish Speaking) U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 3523 McKinney Avenue, # 520 Dallas, Texas 75204 214-827-6239 214-827-6241 (Fax) jchairez@cpsc.gov | Texas Oklahoma Kansas Louisiana |
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Susan Gabriel U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 727 Keeneland Pike Lake Mary, Florida 32746 407-321-3100 407-330-1999 (Fax) sgabriel@cpsc.gov | Florida |
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Rhoderick Holliday U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 201 Varick Street, # 903 New York, New York 10014-4811 212-620-4123 212-620-5338 (Fax) rholliday@cpsc.gov | New York New Jersey Puerto Rico U.S. Virgin Islands Connecticut |
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Marcia Kerr U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 25422 Trabuco Road, # 105-394 Lake Forest, California 92630-2797 949-829-8249 949-829-0001 (Fax) mkerr@cpsc.gov | Southern California New Mexico Arizona Colorado Wyoming |
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Barbara A. McEachern U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 10 Causeway Street, ROOM # 469 Boston, Massachusetts 02222-1047 617-565-7734 617-565-7735 (Fax) bmceachern@cpsc.gov | Maine Massachusetts Vermont New Hampshire Rhode Island |
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Maryanne McGerty-Sieber U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission P.O. Box 222 Sicklerville, New Jersey 08081 856-875-8124 856-875-3691 (Fax) msieber@cpsc.gov | Pennsylvania Delaware Maryland Virginia West Virginia Washington, D.C. |
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Carol D. Reeves U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission P.O. Box 961643 Riverdale, Georgia 30296 770-907-4622 770-907-4652 (Fax) creeves@cpsc.gov | Georgia Mississippi Alabama Tennessee |
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Charlene Roundtree U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 13938A Cedar Road P.O. Box 256 University Heights, Ohio 44118 216-321-5300 216-321-1717 (Fax) croundtree@cpsc.gov | Ohio Michigan Indiana Kentucky |
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Eugene Staebell U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 10842 S.E. 208th Street PMB 273 Kent, Washington 98031 (253)-631-6806 (253) 631-6941 (Fax) estaebell@cpsc.gov | Washington Montana Alaska Idaho Oregon |
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Joel C. Swisher U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission 1301 Clay Street, # 610-N Oakland, California 94612 415-643-1437 415-643-1438 (Fax) jswisher@cpsc.gov | Northern California Guam Hawaii Nevada Utah |
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Catherine Thorsen U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission P.O. Box 72175 Roselle, IL 60172-0175 630-351-8498 630-351-8727 (Fax) cthorsen@cpsc.gov | Illinois Minnesota North Dakota South Dakota Wisconsin |