Lunch Discussion on Wal-Mart and Product Safety

Wal-Mart Watch presents a lunch discussion in Washington, DC. with E. Marla Felcher, Writer, Consumer Advocate and Lecturer at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. If you are interested in discussing the impact Wal-Mart has on the production and regulation of products sold at its stores, you won’t want to miss:

THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE:
How the Travel-Lite Portable Crib Killed Six Toddlers and Why the CPSC Can’t Do Much About it

Lunch will be provided by Wal-Mart Watch

WHEN: Tuesday, October 30th. 12:00 noon – 1:30 PM
RSVP: 202.557.7470

E. Marla Felcher is a freelance journalist, non-profit marketing consultant, and Lecturer of Public Policy at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. In 2001, Ms. Felcher published, It’s No Accident: How Corporations Sell Dangerous Baby Products (Common Courage Press), an account of the Consumer Product Safety Commission’s inability to effectively regulate the manufacturers of high chairs, cribs, strollers and other products used by children. It’s No Accident has been endorsed by the country’s leading consumer groups and pediatric health care practitioners, and has been used as the basis of legislation by members of Congress, both at the state and federal level. Ms. Felcher has also testified before Congress about product safety multiple times.

This event is part of a lunch series sponsored by Wal-Mart Watch.

Posted by Alex Goldschmidt on Tuesday, October 23, 2007

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