How can the gov. ensure product safety? what are the guidelines and what causes a recall on a product? serious and helpful answers plz
210036
It should not be the government's job to ensure product safety. Recalls are made by the manufacturers when they become aware of a problem with their product, usually through numerous consumer complaints.
308867
sounds ok, but like every thing else commercial, you would have to wait for that initial war of technologies, and then how would you get upgrades.  No sooner than you get the thing installed, some new version would come along.\n\nThen of course trusting any industry as to how safe their products are is always dodgy.  \n\nThen there would be conspiracy theories abound, can the thing take you over.  Can you get real viruses from your chip from a comp virus...\n\nBut if you go ahead, call me....
85060
The FDA is in charge of food safety/nutrition, and drug evaluation and research.  Food and drugs are consumable items and both are health related.
617738
Having worked in a strict environment, the store I worked, had a special stock rack in storage.  When there were enough of a similar item, it was repackaged and sent back to the manufacturer, for either a replacement or a refund.  That is why you see a lot of RA #'s (Return Authorization Numbers) on a lot of packages shipped through UPS and Federal Express.  No store that has good ethics will resell a product, that is even in suspect condition, they will always send it back....
297500
Under the Kentucky Lemon Law, if your auto is a lemon, you are entitled to either your money back or a new replacement auto. In addition, the manufacturer may be required to pay your Kentucky lemon law lawyer fees.\n\nThe aim:\n\n(1) To protect consumers who buy or lease new motor vehicles that do not conform to applicable warranties by holding manufacturers accountable for certain nonconformities; \n\n(2) To limit the number of attempts and the amount of times that a manufacturer or its agents shall have to cure such nonconformities; and \n\n(3) To require manufacturers to provide, in as expeditious a manner as possible, a refund, not to exceed the amount in KRS 367.842, or replacement vehicle that is acceptable to the aggrieved consumer when the manufacturer or its agents fail to cure any nonconformity within the specified limits.
612236
If I were you, I would contact the notebook's manufacturer - search for their website and address your situation. I was unable to find a recall for your notebook.  Also.. I'd start looking for a new one.
37467
Bring it into the shop let them check it out for you.  This will save you monney in the long run if it over heats it can burn up you're hard drive or even go on fire.
39487
I am not quite sure what the question is. What should the manufacturer do? Did they already do the experiments or do you want to know what sort of experiments to do? Do you want to know how to reduce the data? How to present the data? What statistical tools might be useful?
290823
As far as state guidelines are concerned (here in NC) you would have to have a locked cabinet for medicines, poisonous products.  Toys and items must be regularly checked for sharp edges and broken parts.\n\nYou would want to ensure that the medicines are locked up\nDaily check of toys for broken edges\nFridge temp should be checked to ensure milk/formula safety\n\nAs well as the other suggestions that people have given you as Answers\n\nGood luck with your project!
352320
Warranties are between company and consumer, there is no reason to rely this material to the merchant more than one time. That time being when a merchant chooses to carry that product.
185043
This involves years and years of development and testing, and unfortunately it can't be stated in just a few paragraphs in a forum like this. I suggest doing some research online for "FDA Approval Process" and "Guidelines," as the paperwork available for this is somewhere in the thousands of pages.
216047
I'm not a nurse, or a medical professional of any kind for that matter but I have a suggestion.  I know that in the places where I have worked we always had someone in charge safety and/or safety inspections.  If you could get your hands on that persons check list (i.e. things they are supposed to check or look for) I would think that would help you.  If I missed the point entirely just ignore this.
117008
In the federal sector you must have either/or evidence to support the claim, notes of what occurred with questions that have to be answered who, what, when, and how. You should also have a list of potential witnesses. First will come an informal investigation to determine if a formal investigation is warranted. After that there will be a lot of time frames that will have to be met in a timely manner. after that you basically play a waiting game.
22526
There actions are subject to oversight by the state attorney general, the US attorney general and by the voters in some state.\n\nIn Arizona, voters have the right to a recall their elected officials.  They would have to get a recall petition and the required number of voter signatures and there would be a special recall election.  The results determines if the elected official stays in office.
7899
Here are some thoughts:\n\n1. Hard drives have a MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) bascially this means that they will fail within a certain time or at least produce bad sectors making some of your data unrecoverable(ish). One way to try to protect data on your PC is to have a RAIDED system that means 2 or more identical drives and hardware or software replicates the software across each drive so if one drive goes down you still have your data. This does not help if the PC goes on fire or gets water damaged, you should always have a seperate backup procedure.\n\n2. DVD's are a good way of backing up your data and I would say are a more reliable way of backing up rather than Hard disks but they are limited to 4.7GB (single sided). What I do is burn a backup every week or whenever I do a big change of data but this is dependant on the old saying "What happens if your Hard Disk died in 5 minutes would you miss any data on it" if yes do a daily Backup. 99% of IT companies only backup there data every day so backing up every few hours is a bit extreme but again if it is critical do a backup. Buy quality DVD's!\n\n3. USB memory sticks are pretty tough bits of kit and you can give them quite a bit of grief before they fail, USB sticks use memory chips rather than magnetic media like hard disks and tend to be a little bit more robust. They can get corrupted just like any other device.\n\n4. Zip disks are a bit old hat and have the same problem as floppy disks avoid avoid avoid! Trust me I have used them and relied too much on them and lost data cos of it.\n\n5. Tape backups (DDS3/4/DAT72) have a good capacity and alot of IT companies use this type of backup but again they are suseptable to corruption similar to floppy disks if kept for any length of time as they are magnetic media, expensive to maintain.\n\n6. SD/MMC cards are similar technology to USB memory sticks as they store the data on a chip(s) but do not normally have the capacity to store alot of data (1GB?) and are very easily lost/broken as they are so small.\n\n7. Online backups are an option but most are insecure and do you want people to have access to your data/photos etc. hmmmm\n\nI suppose there is no 100% safe way of backing up your data (and keeping it safe) but I have found DVD's to be pretty good (using quality DVD's with dark ink), I use DVD-RW as my data changes alot and there is no point in me keeping the old stuff but buy high quality DVD's as cheap and nasty DVD's tend to develop problems later in life.\nI have seen alot of testing done on USB sticks and they have been found to be very tough to break.\n\nIf you are serious about the data you can buy a small fire proof safe as well.\n\nJust my opinon and experience!
49649
Walk away and get a Walmart associate and say someone had an accident (not you) and can they get someone to clean it up? Accidents happen all the time.  No need to be embarrassed.
459415
Here you go:\n\nhttp://www.dmaconsumers.org/consumerassistance.html