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  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) investigators continued to improve the agency’s ability to enforce product safety compliance at U.S. ports by stopping nearly three million units of consumer products that violated U.S. safety rules from reaching consumers in the 3 rd quarter of fiscal year 2012.  This was nearly three times the number of violative units stopped in the previous two quarters combined. In the 3 rd quarter, CPSC investigators screened more than 5,700 different imported consumer products and identified 420 of the screened products as being noncompliant with CPSC’s safety rules.   From October 2011 through June 2012, through their combined efforts, CPSC investigators and their U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) counterparts have prevented about four million units of violative and hazardous imported products from entering the domestic stream of commerce and ending up on store shelves. According to a joint release issued by CPSC and...

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