(ANSI: Washington, D.C.) -- During a recent meeting, the joint member forum (JMF) of the American National Standards Institute convened to discuss consumer product safety issues.

Bringing together the entire ANSI Federation, the JMF built upon the Institute’s recent “Building Consumer Confidence” conference, examining how voluntary standards and compliance programs can be leveraged to renew consumer confidence in product safety.

In his opening remarks, Scott Cooper, ANSI vice president for government relations, stressed the importance of a unified and proactive response from the standards and conformity assessment community. “Lawmakers are already moving to reassure U.S. citizens and ensure product safety,” he says. “If we don’t work together to propose a viable private sector-based solution, we will have to comply with the regulations that are currently being developed.”

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