CONSUMER SAFETY ACT OF 1972

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON

EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION AND
GOVERNMENT RESEARCH

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SECOND CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

ON

TITLES I AND II OF

S. 3419

APRIL 20, 21; AND MAY 3, 4, 1972

Printed for the use of the
Committee on Government Operations

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1972

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS

JOHN L. MCCLELLAN, Arkansas, Chairman

SUBCOMMITTEE ON EXECUTIVE REORGANIZATION AND GOVERNMENT RESEARCH
ABRAHAM RIBICOFF, Connecticut, Chairman

FRED R. HARRIS, Oklahoma

LEE METCALF, Montana
JAMES B. ALLEN, Alabama

HUBERT H. HUMPHREY, Minnesota

JACOB K. JAVITS, New York
CHARLES H. PERCY, Illinois

CHARLES McC. MATHIAS, JR., Maryland
KARL E. MUNDT, South Dakota

ROBERT WAGER, Staff Director and General Counsel
MARK E. GREENWOLD, Assistant General Counsel
GERRY SIMONS, Special Counsel

STUART M. STATLER, Minority Counsel

PAMELA J. GELL, Chief Clerk

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CONTENTS

Opening statement of Hon. Fred R. Harris, U.S. Senator from the State

of Oklahoma...

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1

WITNESSES

APRIL 20, 1972

James F. Turner, author of "The Chemical Feast".

Arnold Elkind, former Chairman, National Commission on Product

Safety..

Dr. Leonard Hayflick, professor, Stanford University School of Medicine,

Stanford, Calif

Rodney E. Leonard, former Administrator of the Consumer and Marketing

Service of the Department of Agriculture and presently the Executive

Director of the Community Nutrition Institute in Washington, D.C.----

APRIL 21, 1972

J. Edward Day, Esq., Sidley & Austin Law Firm, special counsel for

Consumer Electronics Group, Electronic Industries Association____

C. Joseph Stetler, president, Pharmacutical Manufacturers Association;

accompanied by Bruce J. Brennan, general counsel and vice president,

Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association.---

Judy Jackson, Public Interest Research Group, Washington, D.C.............

MAY 2, 1972

Elliot L. Richardson, Secretary, Health, Education, and Welfare; ac-

companied by Stephen Kurzman, Assistant Secretary for Legislation;

Rodney H. Brady, Assistant Secretary for Administration and Manage-

ment; Merlin K. DuVal, M.D., Assistant Secretary for Health and

Scientific Affairs; Charles C. Edwards, M.D., Commissioner of Food and

Drugs, Food and Drug Administration; Robert W. Berliner, M.D.,

Deputy Director for Science, Office of the Director, NIH; and Peter B.

Hutt, Assistant General Counsel for Food, Drugs and Product Safety,

Office of the General Counsel...

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30

38.

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143

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172

MAY 3, 1972

Frank C. Carlucci, Associate Director, Office of Management and Budget,

accompanied by Charles F. Bingman..

314

Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Manpower and Welfare Division, General

Accounting office; accompanied by Morton A. Myers, Dean K. Crowther,

Arlin Barry, and John Tipton...

332

Dr. Peter Isacson, assistant professor of Social and Preventive Medicine,

project director of the Vaccine Evaluation Unit, State University of New

York, Buffalo, N. Y...

EXHIBITS

343

No.

1. Text of S. 3419, a bill to protect consumers against unreasonable risk

of injury from hazardous products, and for other purposes, cited as

the "Consumer Safety Act of 1972".

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2. Statement of James S. Turner, Esq.

112

3. Statement of Arnold B. Elkind, Chairman, Commission on Product
Safety from March 1968 to September 1970..

116