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The newest federal regulatory body is the Consumer Product Safety Commission, whose responsibility includes drafting safety standards for a wide variety of household products and home furnishings. In addition to its broad jurisdiction, the Commission has been given some punch-the power to seek court injunctions to keep unsafe products from being marketed and to compel manufacturers to remove hazardous products that already have been placed on sale.
R. David Pittle (1976) studied this question.