Consumer Product Safety Commission Better Data Needed to Help Identify and Analyze Potential Hazards

Identifies the criteria the Consumer Protection Safety Commission (CPSC) uses to select projects, and reviews the information it relies upon in making these choices; assesses the information CPSC draws on to perform risk assessment and cost-benefit analyses and evaluates the agency's methodology for conducting cost-benefit analyses; describes CPSC's procedures for releasing manufacturer-specific information to the public and reports whether evidence exists that CPSC violated its statutory requirements concerning the release of such information. Charts and tables.