Richard O. Simpson, who struck fear in corporate executives and trade groups as the first chairman of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, died July 21 at a nursing home in DeLand, Fla. He was 93.
Established by an act of Congress in 1972, the commission was greeted harshly by pro-business groups and conservatives. Syndicated columnist James J. Kilpatrick compared the CPSC to Dr. Frankenstein.
Mr. Simpson, an electrical engineer who led the CPSC from its founding until 1975, acknowledged that the agency had a “frightening amount of authority.” But he told Whitten, “Our mission isn’t to eliminate all risk, but all unreasonable risk.”He wasn’t pro-consumer or pro-business, he said. He labeled himself “pro in-the-reduction of risk.”
One rule enacted during Mr. Simpson’s tenure — mandatory child-safety caps on medicine bottles — might have saved his family a trip to the hospital had it been in effect when two of his children, while playing doctor, consumed a bottle of candy-flavored aspirin. They both had their stomachs pumped.in Independence, Mo., on March 7, 1930.
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