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<title>CU applauds efforts on product-related injuries</title>
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<title>CU urges the California Assembly to ban BPA</title>
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<title>CU:Stop using Simplicity “Close-Sleeper” bassinets</title>
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<description>Consumers should heed the CPSC’s call to stop using convertible &quot;close-sleeper/bedside sleeper&quot; bassinets </description>
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<title>Report: Sunscreens with nanomaterials risky</title>
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<description>Nano-sunscreens are being promoted as safe but the evidence collected shows otherwise</description>
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<title>CU commends Chicago for banning BPA</title>
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<description>Chicago is the first city in the nation to ban BPA from plastic baby bottles &amp; sippy cups for children under age 3</description>
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<title>Minnesota becomes first state to ban BPA</title>
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<title>Enactment of BPA ban in Suffolk County, NY hailed</title>
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<title>Bill banning BPA in Suffolk County, NY passes</title>
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<description>The decision would make it the first jurisdiction in the nation to ban BPA.</description>
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<title>CU: Ban BPA in children’s products</title>
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<title>President should appoint an FDA Commissioner who will restore the public&apos;s confidence</title>
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<description>The Commissioner must be committed to public health and safety and is independent of the industries that the FDA regulates.</description>
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<title>Product safety law makes marketplace safer</title>
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<title>FDA should ban BPA in children’s products</title>
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<title>Still Not Safe</title>
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<description>Report: Recalls continue to escalate as CU calls for more marketplace surveillance and consumer awareness</description>
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<title>CU urges holiday shoppers to use caution</title>
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<description>Children’s products account for two-thirds of recalled products in FY 2008</description>
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<title>12 toy shopping tips for a safer holiday</title>
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