Synopses & Reviews
Nancy Harvey Steorts, former chairperson of the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission, has combined her professional and personal experiences to create a definitive and comprehensive consumer safety reference guide, which promises to become a standard in the American home.In this extensive and easily referenced manual, Steorts addresses the safety concerns consumers have (or should have) about their homes, automobiles, food, and other products.The book includes a glossary of private and government product safety organizations, and additional sources for obtaining further information. Heavily documented with newspaper headlines, test results, and statistics, Steorts draws on her own work as a government administrator and her personal experience as a mother and grandmother. The result is a highly readable, practical, and informative manual.