Congress Leaves Product Safety Overhaul in Limbo
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After a year in which American parents discovered Elmo was tainted with lead, Polly had dangerous magnets in her pockets, and one of this season's most sought-after toys was laced with a coma-inducing chemical, Congress is going home this week without reforming the nation's consumer product safety...
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Description: Faced with a series of major lapses in drug safety, the Food and Drug Administration announces new measures to rectify the situation.
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A lingering dispute over a contract imposed on air traffic controllers last year is delaying the introduction of legislation needed to modernize the nation's air traffic control system, according to congressional staff members and administration officials.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration fails to inspect domestic plants that produce pacemakers and other high-risk medical devices as often as required and checks few manufacturing sites overseas, congressional investigators told Congress on Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON -- Biotechnology lobbyists attempting to slow the development of cheap generic versions of the world's most expensive drugs have been emphasizing questions about their safety in an effort to win support among the new Democratic leaders of Congress.
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A Bush administration import safety panel urged government agencies on Monday to work together to focus on the riskiest products in a "fundamental change" in import monitoring, following a spate of tainted or unsafe goods from China.
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The first drug to treat female sexual dysfunction isn&#39;t ready for the market yet because of safety concerns, a federal advisory committee cautioned Thursday.
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The U.S. House of Representatives on  Tuesday moved closer to a vote on a wide-ranging package of  trade legislation, as lawmakers scrambled to finish their work  for the year.
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Patent overhaul legislation thatÂ passed the U.S. House of Representatives FridayÂ still faces significant opposition as it heads to the Senate, opponents said.
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The Consumer Products Safety Commission is the supposed watchdog of toy safety. But it has no teeth
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Congress voted last year to prohibit passengers from bringing lighters and matches aboard commercial airplanes for security reasons, but figuring out how to institute the change has become more complicated.
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Two years after an explosion tore apart the Sago Mine and killed 12 men, prompting Congress to pass legislation strengthening mine safety standards, many of those standards have yet to be implemented.
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The U.S Food and Administration's plan to consolidate laboratories used for testing food and other products would make it even more difficult for the understaffed agency to protect Americans from unsafe food, lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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Legislation to tighten rules on  approving foreign takeovers of American companies has stalled  in the U.S. Congress until after the November elections, House  and Senate lawmakers said on Friday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration is supposed to be a vigilant industry watchdog that prevents harmful products from reaching America&#39;s kitchen tables and medicine chests.
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GOTHENBURG, SWEDEN Yawn. That sums up the reaction here to news that the U.S. Congress, acting through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, is recommending that all new cars and trucks sold in America be fitted with electronic stability-control systems.
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Manufacturers and consumer advocates offer a handful of precautions to lessen the chance of a meltdown.