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Opinion: The Consumer Product Safety Commission needs to act on major threats to children

It's alarming to me how much the Consumer Product Safety Commission knows about two real and present dangers to children and has failed to act on them.
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We know a lot about how to protect children from injury and death. Car seats help protect them during a crash. Vaccines prevent them from developing polio, meningitis, and a host of other infectious diseases.

We know this because years of careful research and data collection prove it, and based on that information we’ve been able to advise families about ways to protect their children.

As a pediatrician, it’s

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