Demanding Product Safety
It’s the most basic of consumer rights: products that don’t poison, maim, or kill. Your safety should be the top priority, but too often government rules help companies over consumers. Find out how to protect yourself and how you can join millions of others pushing for consumer-first safeguards.
Take action
Demand Clean Water Standards
Tell our government to set clean water standards that protect us from “forever chemicals” in our drinking water.
Tell our government to set clean water standards that protect us from “forever chemicals” in our drinking water.
Sign CR’s PetitionPut People's Safety First—Not Corporate Profits!
Demand that our government stop prioritizing the interests of big manufacturers instead of telling people about hazardous products.
Demand that our government stop prioritizing the interests of big manufacturers instead of telling people about hazardous products.
Sign CR’s PetitionGet Dangerous Infant Sleepers OUT of Our Homes
Tell companies to step up their outreach efforts to get deadly recalled sleepers out of families’ homes — not just off of store shelves.
Tell companies to step up their outreach efforts to get deadly recalled sleepers out of families’ homes — not just off of store shelves.
Sign CR’s PetitionGet Heavy Metals Out of Dark Chocolate
Tell companies to reduce risky levels of lead and cadmium in their dark chocolate.
Tell companies to reduce risky levels of lead and cadmium in their dark chocolate.
Sign CR’s PetitionSteps you can take
Here are some personal steps, included in Buyer Aware, that you can take to help keep you and your family safe from dangerous products and services.
More Resources
Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- For more than 50 years we’ve been pioneers, using science and different perspectives to make the environment safer and healthier for us all.
- At Healthy Babies Bright Futures (HBBF), we design our work to measurably reduce the largest sources of babies’ exposures to toxic chemicals that harm brain development. We target chemicals with the strongest body of evidence supporting their role in developmental harm.
- Kids In Danger (KID) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting children by fighting for product safety.
Parents Against Tip-Overs (PAT)
- Parents Against Tip-Overs (PAT) is a nationwide network of parents who want to see an end to TV and furniture tip-over injuries and deaths. The group was founded in 2018 by parents of young children who have lost their lives from a furniture tip-over incident.
- For over 50 years the Center for Auto Safety has worked to make cars safer. From airbags to self-driving cars we are the leaders in auto safety.