US to Open Product Safety Office in Beijing

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is expected to establish its first external office later this year in Beijing to assist with the education and policing of unsafe products reaching American consumers.

Inez Tenenbaum, head of the CPSC, said on Monday that choosing China for the organization’s first overseas office made sense “because 45 percent of the consumer products sold in the United States and 90 percent of all toys come from mainland China.”