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Official: Tighten furniture safety standards

2015-08-20 04:14:04| Furniture - Topix.net

Dressers that meet the furniture industry's voluntary safety standards are still at risk of crashing onto children, and efforts by manufacturers to adopt tougher measures have been sluggish and ineffective, a top federal regulator says. Speaking at a summit on the growing threat of furniture and television tip-overs, Marietta Robinson of the Consumer Product Safety Commission said the current industry standard offers only "minimal stability" for dressers.

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