Refrigerator Safety Act
The Refrigerator Safety Act is a federal law passed by the United States Congress in 1956 .
It came into force in October 1958 and required refrigerator manufacturers to design their products so that they could also be opened from the inside. The law was a reaction to the high number of fatally injured children who locked themselves in old refrigerators and suffocated while playing, especially in junkyards. Since the law came into force, the number of such accidents has fallen dramatically. The law is one of the oldest and most successful American consumer protection laws .
Web links
- Refrigerator Safety Act. In: United States Consumer Product Safety Commission. Retrieved on July 18, 2017 (legal text on the website of the competent federal authority (PDF; 9 KB)).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Refrigerator Safety Act legal text ( memento of the original of November 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ consumerfed.org ( Memento of the original from October 23, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : The Consumer Product Safety Commission: What Congress Intended
