Product Safety Notification and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2003

H.R. 1197, the Product Safety Notification and Recall Effectiveness Act of 2003, would have required manufacturers of certain consumer products to establish and maintain a formal system for notifying customers about product recalls. Under this bill, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) would have set standards for a database to ensure that safety alerts and recall information reached the people who purchased the affected items. The goal of the legislation was to improve public safety by making it easier for citizens to learn if a product in their home was defective or dangerous, rather than relying on general news reports. Although introduced in 2003, the bill did not advance past the committee stage and never became law.