to his coworkers at cpsc, dr.at fault. this only makes sense if you know or don't want to change any of the shape of your crib hardware and would rather blame the consumer end quote. ms. cowles is this consistent with your experience in negotiating crib safety standards. >> i think is very consistent with mike's parents on the committee and and never mention them i wonder testimony the committee will not look at incidents that happen in cribs older than five years old even though we heard from the family that could've easily been a crib that was in one place and not reassembled because they consider at all. they're very quick to blame when they can account things to let the consumer dead rather than to their crib. and again, as i said today, if it is made so you can put together in a way that causes death, that the design problem, not a consumer problem. >> thank you, ms. cowles and i appreciate mr. chairman boucher holding this hearing. the females illustrate relying on safety standards and i yield back. >> think

to his coworkers at cpsc, dr. freakish and its insistence on instructions of crips are at fault. this only makes sense if you know or don't want to change any of the shape of your crib hardware and would rather blame the consumer end quote. ms. cowles is this consistent with your experience in negotiating crib safety standards. >> i think is very consistent with mike's parents on the committee and and never mention them i wonder testimony the committee will not look at incidents that happen in cribs older than five years old even though we heard from the family that could've easily been a crib that was in one place and not reassembled because they consider at all. they're very quick to blame when they can account things to let the consumer dead rather than to their crib. and again, as i said today, if it is made so you can put together in a way that causes death, that the design problem, not a consumer problem. >> thank you, ms. cowles and i appreciate mr. chairman boucher holding this hearing. the females illustr

to his coworkers at cpsc, dr. midgett dothan and e-mail to industry has been, freakish and its insistence on instructions of crips are at fault. this only makes sense if you know or don't want to change any of the shape of your crib hardware and would rather blame the consumer end quote. ms. cowles is this consistent with your experience in negotiating crib safety standards. >> i think is very consistent with mike's parents on the committee and and never mention them i wonder testimony the committee will not look at incidents that happen in cribs older than five years old even though we heard from the family that could've easily been a crib that was in one place and not reassembled because they consider at all. they're very quick to blame when they can account things to let the consumer dead rather than to their crib. and again, as i said today, if it is made so you can put together in a way that causes death, that the design problem, not a consumer problem. >> thank you, ms. cowles and i appreciate mr. chairman b

cpsc is prepared to meet the obligation.ur hearing will detail the crib -- recent crude recalls and consider how cpsc prevents defects from entering the market. we will examine the industry's role in ensuring products are safe and eckert standards are designed to keep consumers save. today we will hear specifically about the safety concerns of the drop side cribs. a drop side krepp allows a parent to raise and lower the front of the crib for easy access to their baby. as opposed to the fixed rail credit that has four sites that do not move up or down. according to the juvenile products minute dr. is a station, retailers sold approximately 500,000 full-sized cribs in 2008, of which 15-20% had drop side. since to those of five, the cpsc announced more than 30 recalls of 7 million cribs for a variety of safety problems. many of them involving jobsites. cpsc experts found that mattress support brackets and drop side hardware can break, the four more are lost. the design flaws permit consumers to intentionally or unintentionally

it will be a challenge for the cpsc. must make certain that the process is in place for every company and this will be located as congress intended. i am happy to announce to all of you that the safer products website is now on. the data base is not on the web site but you can use this to follow the development and previous some of the pages and the functions in advance of march 2011. ñri would like you to attend the session this afternoon with two experts and learn more about the approach that we are taking to build the data base. as i have stated to you ju$is se of social media. we are working toi] improve the facebook and messages. the product safety center will open with new and modern equipment, and we are excited that we will be able to do our own testing. regarding the consumer product safety act, i believe that this was the most positive change for the commission since this was created. there is a paradigm change that will not be reversed. companies that make zippers and buttons will be eliminating the lead from