{"id":3711,"date":"2009-11-10T17:12:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T21:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=3711"},"modified":"2011-02-17T16:56:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T21:56:50","slug":"childrens-strollers-recalled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/11\/10\/childrens-strollers-recalled\/","title":{"rendered":"Children&#8217;s strollers recalled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3712\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Maclaren-stroller-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Maclaren stroller\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Maclaren-stroller-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2009\/11\/Maclaren-stroller.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has <a title=\"recalled\" href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703808904574526023554966210.html?mod=djemTMB\" target=\"_blank\">recalled<\/a> a million childen&#8217;s strollers made by the Maclaren USA company after reports that a side hinge had\u00a0sliced off\u00a0fingertips of a dozen children.\u00a0 School of Management Professor <a title=\"Michael Salinger\" href=\"http:\/\/smgnet.bu.edu\/mgmt_new\/profiles\/SalingerMichael.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Salinger<\/a>, a former Federal Trade Commission director, says the issue of what the CPSC should be regulating is a hard question.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;It\u2019s a small agency with a potentially huge mandate, so what is a cost-effective use of their resources is not obvious.\u00a0\u00a0The right answer depends in part on how effective product liability laws are in deterring companies from selling products that lop off little children\u2019s fingers.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Michael Salinger, 617-353-4408, <a href=\"mailto:salinger@bu.edu\">salinger@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has recalled a million childen&#8217;s strollers made by the Maclaren USA company after reports that a side hinge had\u00a0sliced off\u00a0fingertips of a dozen children.\u00a0 School of Management Professor Michael Salinger, a former Federal Trade Commission director, says the issue of what the CPSC should be regulating is a hard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[4978,2878,4979],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3711"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8303,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3711\/revisions\/8303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}