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GAO criticizes slow actions by consumer safety agency
A General Accounting Office study finds the Consumer Product Safety Commission slow to identify hazards, ban or recall products, and recover recalled items. It cites a year delay in a BRK Electronics smoke detector recall, low buyback rates, and asbestos product bans delayed from 1973 to 1977, arguing regulators softened recalls to ease business burdens.
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