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Scientists inspect rattles
Testing protects infants
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. —
At a federal compound once
used to protect the nation’s
capital from enemy missiles, re
searchers now work to guard in
fants against unsafe rattles, and
everyone from hazardous toas
ters.
The facility is the Consumer
Product Safety Commission's
engineering laboratory. Each
year it tests as many items as can
be found in a department store
catalogue.
“We like to consider
ourselves the backbone of the
commission,” said William Wal
ton, the CPSC’s engineering di
rector who oversees the lab. “We
are also its technical integrity.”
Over the past decade the
CPSC has ordered 3,100 recalls
involving 290 million product
units. It has also imposed stan
dards on countless other pro
ducts designed to prevent injury
and death.
The lab is housed in six stark
cinclerblock buildings on a roll
ing 8-acre site 20 miles from
Washington, D.C.
Researchers opened shop in
1976, three years al ter the CPSC
was created and several years af
ter the compound was vacated
by its previous tenant, a Nike
missile base.
Inside the buildings, en
gineers and technicians use
technological wizardry and old-
fashioned common sense to dis
sect, probe and explore every
thing from teddy bears and
lawnmowers to coffee makers
and 10-speed bicycles.
Their tools vary.
They have Rube Goldberg-
type contraptions, such as one
with thread, tiny weights and a
timing device, to test a material’s
flammability.
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They have a bevy of calibra
tors, including one to gauge the
sharpness of a toy truck.
Manuel Ratios spends his
days in a brightly colored lab
that looks like a small kindergar
ten classroom. He specializes in
safety for children.
lot of people.”
Many studies, however, are
initiated after someone already
has been hurt or even killed.
The lab examined a playpen
in which a child suffocated. It
concluded such playpens should
carry labels warning against
placing a youngster in the device
if any of its four sides are down.
For more than a year the lab
has been examining increasingly
popular chain saws, trying to re
duce the estimated 28,()()() in
juries a year attributed to the
tools.
“There is an intrinsic reward
for what we do,” said Ratios.
“We know we are protecting a
During the past two years the
CPSC’s staff has been cut by ab
out a third as a result of White
House budget cuts. The lab now
has 23 people and an annual
budget of $1 million.
Lab director William West
said motivation remains high
despite budget cuts.
“There is a real sense of mis
sion out here,” he said.
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