The CPSC can initiate Involuntary recalls, but they always try to negotiate voluntary recalls first. Involuntary recalls always get right leaning individuals t

The CPSC can initiate Involuntary recalls, but they always try to negotiate voluntary recalls first. Involuntary recalls always get right leaning individuals to start screening about governmental overreach, and to start looking at how to kill off the the CPSC. So it is very much preferred to try to get companies to agree to voluntary recalls. As a result of that, and the additional red tape needed to issue an involuntary recall, the latter are very infrequent. Normally, this is in the company’s interests too, since refusing to issue a suggested recall can make the company look bad too, since it can look like the company not taking safety seriously. On the pure regulatory side, the CPSC can issue safety standards, but basically has to give industry a chance to first develop voluntary safety standards. If the industry does so, and the CPSC believes compliance will be high enough, then it cannot create its own standard. Thieve is an implication that if the industry created standard is good enough, but companies don’t comply, the CPSC should create a mandatory standard that requires products provide safety equivalent or better then said voluntary standard. Only when industry refuses to create standards sufficient to address safety concerns is the CPSC supposed to create its own out of whole cloth. Obviously, just the threat of doing so frequently gets the industry to create or update its own voluntary standards.