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Product Safety Honchos Get Free Ride

Regulated companies pick up travel tabs for federal agency heads

By Zach Samalin,  Newser Staff

Posted Nov 2, 2007 4:00 PM CDT

(Newser) – Leaders of the US agency that regulates product safety have accepted free trips from reps of the industries they oversee, a move critics call a flagrant breach of ethics, the Washington Post reports. Consumer Product Safety Commission chief Nancy Nord and predecessor Hal Stratton have...   Read full story »

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