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How the Bush Administration Made America Safe for Dangerous Toys

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China gets the blame for this year's wave of recalls-but American industry has been working for years to gut government safety standards. Within months of taking office, Reagan convinced Congress to pass legislation that crippled the CPSC: Before it could impose mandatory standards on any product, it had to wait for industry to write its own standards, and then prove that they had failed.
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